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Cosmos

With finely cut leaves, slender stems and showy daisy-like flowers, Cosmos are long-blooming annuals that belong in every garden. Ridiculously easy to grow, fairly pest-free, and low maintenance, add these charming and graceful plants to the landscape, and you will be rewarded with plentiful blossoms and happy butterflies! Excellent as cut flowers too, Cosmos enjoy a long vase life where their lovely, richly colored petals will compliment any bouquet.

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Cosmos atrosanguineus (Chocolate Cosmos)

Highly sought after, Cosmos atrosanguineus (Chocolate Cosmos) is a tuberous perennial boasting chocolate-scented, velvety deep crimson flowers, up to 2 in. across (5 cm), from mid-summer to fall.