Cosmos are an old-fashioned flower. They are delicate and lovely. You have to deadhead the flowers and so there is some maintenance for the flower bed. But we chose them for another reason. The goldfinch love their seeds. And so we planted them all along our driveway and in the late summer as seed-heads form, the birds come and land on the delicate flower stems. But the stems are not sturdy and the weight of the birds bends them. Back and forth they sway - oblivious to their precarious situation. The goldfinch are happy as they eat with delight. And we are equally happy as we watch them!
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