Well, it's a breakthrough for the Cosmos family -- the first-ever true yellow is now available for you to grow from seed! Xanthos is a glorious new variety, setting masses of 2½-inch blooms with petals that shade from primrose at the tips to golden at the base, surrounding a dark yellow center. Ideal for cutflowers and irresistible in garden and container, they open from early summer all the way into fall. Won't the butterflies be delighted?
Xanthos is a dwarf plant reaching just 20 to 25 inches high (in full bloom) and 10 to 12 inches wide. It is quite free-flowering, especially if you pinch the tips of the stems during the growth process, so that it sets more branches. It begins flowering a week or two before most other C. bipinnatus varieties, and will self-sow happily for you. This is an open-pollinated variety, happy to share its wealth! So even though it's an annual, if you save the seed or let it fall in the garden, you need buy seed only once!
Awarded the Fleuroselect Gold Medal in Europe, Xanthos is that rare thing, a truly new look for a familiar plant. It earns its honors with easy care, generous flower yields, and a long season of color. You will love it in any sunny, well-drained setting!
Simply direct-sow the seeds wherever you'd like lots of quick, long-lasting color. (You can also start them indoors, germinating at about 65 degrees. If you do this, transplant them young so they can get established as soon as the spring soil has warmed up.) A little more than 2 months after germinating, the plants are in full bloom! The flowers are great in vases too, keeping their color and holding up their heads over a long period. And the plants will thrive even in poor dry soils, making them ideal for blazing-hot trouble spots as well as beds, borders, and walkways. Packet is 50 seeds.
These attractive, quick-growing plants are great for background planting, beds, and borders with masses of colorful, daisylike blooms fo cutting. Upright, sun-loving annual with finely cut foliage and an abundance of vibrant blooms on slender stems
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Well, it's a breakthrough for the Cosmos family -- the first-ever true yellow is now available for you to grow from seed! Xanthos is a glorious new variety, setting masses of 2½-inch blooms with petals that shade from primrose at the tips to golden at the base, surrounding a dark yellow center. Ideal for cutflowers and irresistible in garden and container, they open from early summer all the way into fall. Won't the butterflies be delighted?
Xanthos is a dwarf plant reaching just 20 to 25 inches high (in full bloom) and 10 to 12 inches wide. It is quite free-flowering, especially if you pinch the tips of the stems during the growth process, so that it sets more branches. It begins flowering a week or two before most other C. bipinnatus varieties, and will self-sow happily for you. This is an open-pollinated variety, happy to share its wealth! So even though it's an annual, if you save the seed or let it fall in the garden, you need buy seed only once!
Awarded the Fleuroselect Gold Medal in Europe, Xanthos is that rare thing, a truly new look for a familiar plant. It earns its honors with easy care, generous flower yields, and a long season of color. You will love it in any sunny, well-drained setting!
Simply direct-sow the seeds wherever you'd like lots of quick, long-lasting color. (You can also start them indoors, germinating at about 65 degrees. If you do this, transplant them young so they can get established as soon as the spring soil has warmed up.) A little more than 2 months after germinating, the plants are in full bloom! The flowers are great in vases too, keeping their color and holding up their heads over a long period. And the plants will thrive even in poor dry soils, making them ideal for blazing-hot trouble spots as well as beds, borders, and walkways. Packet is 50 seeds.
These attractive, quick-growing plants are great for background planting, beds, and borders with masses of colorful, daisylike blooms fo cutting. Upright, sun-loving annual with finely cut foliage and an abundance of vibrant blooms on slender stems
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.