cosmos atrosanguineus

**zazen999** · 10-03-2009, 09:35 AM

No propagation but ours is 4 years old now [it was one of the first plants we bought together - aah]...but it overwinters well up here in the midlands.

Year 1 we just shoved it in the corner of the garage. Year 2 it went in the bottom of the growhouse as we were planning a move and I thought we would forget about it in the garage. Year 3 it was in the ground and it took a while to get going but it caught up late last summer and it has survived this winter as well.

**shushkin!** · 10-03-2009, 01:04 PM

Hopeful

Thanks for the info. Cant be the cold then.
Maybe its because my soil is heavy clay.
I will be brave and give it another go but I will add a load agricultural
grit to the hole at aid drainage and choose a sunny spot.
I will try my biggest plant and hope for the best.

**Mi Jard�n** · 11-03-2009, 11:07 PM

I have heavy soil and mine has been fine. I bought it last summer, and dug it up before the first frost. I put it in the conservatory, and eventually it died back. Now it has shoots about 7 inches high.
I did here they can survive in the UK, but I am glad I didn't risk it after all that snow! Besides, I think it would just rot in my garden over the winter, it never dries out as we are east facing.

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