Recently, I’ve started some of my summer flowers from seed and the potential for future colour and perfume laying dormant in those little packages has got me daydreaming once again about all of the inspiring and cheerful cosmos I saw in the Caribbean.
The flowers in these photos were photographed in St. Lucia where our friend David grew a massive patch of orange and yellow cosmos all along one side of a very old stone wall.
Here is a view taken from the other side of the wall. The burgundy and pink plant on the far right is the bronze roselle I posted about previously. Unfortunately, try as I might, I was unable to obtain germination from those seeds.
These days, the weather here in Toronto is wonderful, but sometimes I miss the Caribbean so badly, it feels like a big hole in my gut.
Bright and sunny, the juxtaposed delicate cosmos blooms and the rigid old stone wall is stunning. I miss the Caribbean and its cool quiet mornings, too. My parents are on a plane to Puerto Rico right now. And I’m not bitter at all. Nope. (lucky bastards)
The Bronze Roselle seeds you sent me sprouted! I’ll take photos for you.
so gorgeous! i love cosmos. lots of them in the front gardens around west Toronto!
So nice and bright. Very cheery. Hope your seedlings will remind you of your Caribbean cosmos.
These are beautiful :)
I planted the yellow and orange cosmos last year. They were beautiful and bloomed during the heat of the deep south when nothing else bloomed. Unfortunately, it’s reseeded so well, this year the volunteers are everywhere. Like the lawn and the neighbor’s yard. Oops!
I love Cosmos!!! They are my forever friend here in Texas, where they grow despite the heat and lack of water. I just planted some rainbow cosmos and some heavenly white cosmos at the school garden, where hopefully they will bloom, bloom, bloom all the way through to the fall!
I have the best luck with growing cosmos from seed. Mine have also reseeded maybe too good!
Cosmos are gorgeous and do well here in the mild south of England if it’s not too damp in spring – but if it is, all our potential volunteers damp off and rot. I would love to live somewhere that they germinated madly.
The colours of the Caribbean, once seen, live in the heart forever, don’t they?
So when do we get to purchase a book of your gorgeous photos?
I love cosmos and the combination of orange and yellow is really nice to look at. I’m glad I’ve found this blog. Thanks for this wonderful post.
Thanks Heather! Both of my books are also photographed by me. But stay tuned for pretty picture book later this year.
Meighan: That’s amazing! Someone else I gave seeds to was unsuccessful as well. You have given me hope.