Took this photo of pink cosmos and late rosebuds in the garden yesterday. This morning we had the first frost - a sharp white one- so I think the leaves will soon be falling.
Hi Mike, your magnificent Cosmos looks just like our Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis) which had been flowering for months until Jude gave them the final trim a couple of days ago. I've been quietly enjoying their graceful presence so much that I find myself glancing in their direction and missing their bright and breezy performance. I think they are also known as wind-flower... they certainly dance as entertainingly as Willy Wordsworth's daffodils anyway.
Pootatu's v-word is bacantli I think that is a very apt term for the manner of their dance.
Hi Carl, our Japanese anemones are now past ; the flowers are all dead, but I've also been looking at the cosmos which are still in flower, and although the flowers of the two plants are similar the leaves are totally different. Ours are Cosmos Bipinnatus.I think I'm right in saying that the Cosmos is of the daisy family, and the Anemone of the buttercup family. Ask Judy - she knows plants.
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Hi Mike, your magnificent Cosmos looks just like our Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis) which had been flowering for months until Jude gave them the final trim a couple of days ago. I've been quietly enjoying their graceful presence so much that I find myself glancing in their direction and missing their bright and breezy performance. I think they are also known as wind-flower... they certainly dance as entertainingly as Willy Wordsworth's daffodils anyway.
Pootatu's v-word is bacantli I think that is a very apt term for the manner of their dance.
Hi Carl, our Japanese anemones are now past ; the flowers are all dead, but I've also been looking at the cosmos which are still in flower, and although the flowers of the two plants are similar the leaves are totally different. Ours are Cosmos Bipinnatus.I think I'm right in saying that the Cosmos is of the daisy family, and the Anemone of the buttercup family. Ask Judy - she knows plants.
Bipinnatus is an unworthy name for such blossoms, I'm sure they are worth more than two pins!
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