Thanks, Steve, for the info and warning. :) After reading this, my wife wondered off mumbling something about hoeing them out later this summer.
Glad I asked. Jack --- On Fri, 7/15/11, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > From: steve harley <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Floral Mystery > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 2:13 PM > On 2011-07-15 15:06 , Jack Davis > wrote: > > Local nursery gave my wife some free flower seeds > awhile back. She dropped them in a line to border an edge of > her veg garden and they're now bearing blossoms. We are > taken with the greenery (delicate and fairly tall) as well > as the structure and color on the blossoms. > > Anyone know either their common or botanical name? > > those are cosmos (that's the genus as well as the common > name); next year you will have hundreds of them; they can > look a little natty when the flowers drop and the seeds > develop, so cutting them back at that time will possibly > reduce the reseeding; we enjoy/tolerate/are annoyed by them > alternately > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
