“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”

Cosmos, Sonata series

Cosmos, Sonata series, Carmine Pink

Cosmos

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”  Brian Cox.

Ah. Wrong ‘Cosmos’…

That other Cosmos is one of my very favourite ‘filler’ summer-flowering annuals –  I used it last year in the newly planted borders of the Roehampton garden, where it quickly provided colour and substance while the permanent planting got settled in. I’m hoping the shrubbery and roses will make more of themselves this year without the need for bulking out with annuals. In any event I am too late to sow seeds now, though I do have a packet of Sarah Ravens’s ‘Cut Flowers and Gorgeous Gardens‘ Cosmos ‘Dazzler’. Next year.