On 11/3/07 12:40, in article , "Des
Higgins" wrote:

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It is a fast growing tender annual that grows to about 1.5 metres and has
brilliant orange flowers with odd shaped thickened ehhhh emmmm ehhhh flower
stalks (or involucral something or others). I grew it one year using seed
from T+M but they seem to have stopped doing them now or only have mixed
colour varieties instead of plain orange. I think Chiltern seeds have it.

When we first saw it, we thought it looked like a tall Zinnia. Derry
Watkins has it too at Special Seeds. She does some lovely things at her
nursery near Bath. http://www.specialplants.net/
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)