Cosmos Flower Seeds Packet
Cosmos flowers (Cosmos spp.) are a favorite among gardeners due to their delicate, daisy-like blooms, feathery foliage, and ability to attract butterflies and bees. These annuals are incredibly easy to grow, making them ideal for beginner and experienced gardeners alike. Their long blooming period, from early summer until frost, provides a vibrant display of color in flower beds, borders, and wildflower gardens. With their adaptability to various growing conditions, cosmos flowers thrive in gardens and containers, requiring little maintenance. Cosmos flowers are an easy-to-grow, low-maintenance choice for home gardens, offering long-lasting blooms, pollinator attraction, and vibrant color. With minimal effort, these flowers will self-seed and return year after year, creating a continuous floral display.
How to Grow Cosmos from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Direct sow after last frost or start indoors 4-6 weeks before.
Care and Harvest
Fast growing. Self-seeds freely. Prefers poor soil -- too much fertility reduces blooms. Excellent cut flower.
Dimensions: 5.6" x 3.6" x .1"
Weight: 1.6 hrs
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Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
