Cosmos Bipinnatus 'Sweet Sixteen'
Cosmea 'Sweet Sixteen'
Cosmos are half-hardy annuals which flower in summer to early autumn until the first frosts. Brightly coloured, saucer shaped flowers are numerous and daisy-like and sit above deeply cut, fern-like foliage. 'Sweet Sixteen' has pale pink flowers with dark pink picotee edges to the petals, and a central double frill of narrower petals.
Contributed by @hardys
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Full sun
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Free draining and fertile
Common name
Cosmea 'Sweet Sixteen'
Latin name
Cosmos Bipinnatus 'Sweet Sixteen'
type
Annual
family
Asteraceae
ph
6.6 - 7.8 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Free draining and fertile
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.40 M
1.00 M
Cosmos Bipinnatus 'Sweet Sixteen'
Cosmos are half-hardy annuals which flower in summer to early autumn until the first frosts. Brightly coloured, saucer shaped flowers are numerous and daisy-like and sit above deeply cut, fern-like foliage. 'Sweet Sixteen' has pale pink flowers with dark pink picotee edges to the petals, and a central double frill of narrower petals.
Flowering
From Mid Summer TO Mid Autumn
Flowering season is from mid summer to the first frosts
Planting
From Late Spring TO Early Summer
Plants can be put into the flowering position as soon as all frosts have gone
Propagating by seed
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Seeds can be sown in trays of compost in early Spring, to be put out when all frosts have gone
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