Specialty Gardening: Late Summer - What do you have blooming?, 1 by artemiss

artemiss wrote:
Meredith, thank you! It didn't turn out quite as I had planned, but in the end, I am pleased.
It is funny about the sunflowers..I planted this bed in honor of my late grandma and great-aunt. They were sisters who passed within a few months of each other when I was 13. Were it not for them, i would likely have never had the love of gardening I have today. Everything I planted in there was either something they grew, or let me grow.
Your daughter's sunflower fort reminded me that they also used to grow those for me..and I had forgotten all about it! Now I see those "surprise" sunflowers in a different light.

Here is a "seashells" cosmos from that same bed..