Flower / Warm season
Sensation Mix Cosmos
Tall annual pollinator strips and cutting rows.
Grown for flowers, not culinary harvest.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 75
- Germination temperature
- 65-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 12 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 7 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Low to moderate water after establishment.
- Soil
- Average to lean, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Rich soil produces leafy plants with fewer flowers.
- cut-flowers
- pollinators
- low-fertility
- annual
Browse context
- Flower Catalog Category collection
- Aster Family Rotation and family context
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Source: Seed Savers seed saving guide