"Rod" wrote
Ours have done the same to us and they were sown cold and late and
planted late. But hey. don't knock it - they've been a wonderful show
all summer and still going strong. We'll be able to sort out the
'buried' plants when we get the cosmos out in the autumn. After a year
without a garden and deprived of flowers while we moved in here and
worked on the house and workshop my wife specified the new garden -
what she wanted was FLOWERS please. She got them in spades.

Funny enough, my wife told me a couple of years ago that it was about time
we had a pretty garden with flowers instead of a collection of plants. I
wouldn't admit it to her but I actually prefer it too now it's coming along.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK