Cosmos Apricotta Flower | X 30 Seeds
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- Carbon neutral shipping
- WA Permitted: Yes
This colour is like no other in the cosmos flowers. Absolutely stunning shades of apricots with a sweet soft pink centre.
Cosmos apricotta is one our favourite cosmos and will become yours too!
Common Name: Cosmos Apricotta
Scientific Name: Cosmos bipinnatus
Lifecycle: Annual
Sowing Seasons: Sp + Su (W in warm climates). See below for detailed timings for your climate
Sowing Depth: 6mm approx.
Plant Spacing: 30cm approx.
Germination Time: 7 - 21 days approx.
Soil Temp: 20-26°C
Germination Tips: Raise seedlings and cover seeds lightly with seed raising mix. Pinch out your cosmos seedlings when they are 30cm tall (3 true sets of leaves). Pinching out means taking the top 10cm off your seedling. This will encourage a bushier foliage, and more flowers!
Plant Height: 100cm approx.
Position: Full Sun
Frost Tolerant: No
Seed To Harvest: 90 days approx.
Number of Seeds: 30
Harvest Tips: When petals are just opening, but not yet flattened.
Other Notes: This is an open-pollinated: meaning a no hybrid that can reproduce itself, producing similar traits from one generation to the next. We have observed variation in bloom colour, some flowers are lighter in colour, while some express more rose than apricot.
The below is a guide on which months to sow based on your climate:
Important
Dispatch: Is 3-5 business days at the moment due to a flood of orders. Normally it is 1-3 days. Note that dispatch is not delivery time. It is the time it takes for us to pack your order.
TAS, VIC, SA, NSW, QLD, NT Shipping Information
Australia Post Postage Costs
Letter Post: $3.50 (No Tracking). 5-11 business days from dispatch.
Parcel Post: $8.90 (Parcels that contain a large item accessories like trugs, tubers, herb dryers and large books are charged $15.95). 3-8 business days from dispatch.
Express Post: $14.90 (Parcels that contain a large item accessories like trugs, tubers, herb dryers and large books are charged $19.95). 2-4 business days from dispatch.
Tubers: are Express or Parcel Post Only as they are perishable. Price calculated on checkout as they can weigh up to 400g each postage will vary.
Postage Delivery Time Frames:
Parcel Post estimated 3-8 business days
Express estimated 2-4 business days
Regular Letter Priority estimated 5-11 business days
Dispatch: Is 3-7 business days at the moment due to a flood of orders.
WA Shipping Information
Please Note:
- Orders are sent weekly on a Wednesday morning, as they require a quarantine inspection on arrival.
- Order cut off is midnight Tuesday night as long as payment is finalised. Sometimes paypal payments can take 24-48hrs to go through. This is rare. If this is the case the order will go into the following week's dispatch.
- Please note not all seeds can be sent to WA. Seeds that cannot be sent are marked on the thumbnail or below the price on the product page. These seeds are NOT permitted to WA.
- Unfortunately due the way our orders get to WA Quarantine we cannot send large items like accessories, books etc.
- We don't offer Express Post to WA as the parcels are sent weekly and defeats the purpose of Express post. You can however choose parcel post.
- Unfortunately we cannot send books and accessories to WA due the way the quarantine inspection process works.
Postage Costs (inc quarantine inspection fees)
Letter Post: $7.50 (No Tracking) this includes the cost of quarantine inspection.
Parcel Post: $13.90 this includes quarantine inspection fees.
Sorry we cannot offer free post to WA due to the cost of quarantine inspection fees.
WA orders are sent weekly as they require quarantine inspections on arrival to WA
Our seeds are all germination tested, with most seeds having around an 80% germination rate.
Your germination rates will depend on lots of environmental factors.
We mostly recommend raising seedlings over direct sowing.
Please note your flowers won’t always look the exactly same as our flowers in our photos, they can be different colours, shade’s and forms and that’s what makes nature so wonderful!
How To Grow Cosmos Flowers
These heat loving blooms are very easy to grow.
