A Garden Cutie

These small but colorful flowers were among "wildflowers" in a packet my neighbor sowed last year. I saved seeds from several of the plants and these cute 1-inch flowers came up again this year.

Their name is one that took me a long time to find and a lot of trouble to remember. Yesterday I was repeating it and writing it down to fix it in my mind: Cosmidium. I kept wanting to say Cosmos-something.

It does not exactly resemble catalogue photos, as it has more golden-orange and less chocolate-brown on the petals. If anybody has more information, let me know.

The very small pot was created by Mary Vic Griswold, who was a potter as well as a philanthropist and is remembered very fondly by many Plainfielders.

--Bernice