Upoffmebum

By Upoffmebum

New plant in garden

Bought this one totally on how unusual it looked sitting on the shelf in the nursery, with no idea how well it's really going to go in the garden. With looks like that, who really cares?
The limited information on the card that comes with the plant tells me it's a Twisted Dark Orange, or Celosia cristata. That's pretty much it, apart from dimensions and what sort of soil and sun it likes - it likes it Full.
A Wikipedia search tells me it's vulnerable to snails, slugs and aphids. Very useful, I'm sure - especially as most of the other plants in the garden are too.
Comes in a range of boutique colours, such as Strawberry, Orange, Yellow, Red and Dark Orange - and by a process of elimination, I'd guess this one is the Dark Orange.
Bred up by a private horticultural company in the Netherlands, after several years of trialling.
After digging three decent-sized holes for the plants in a particularly concrete-hard patch of the garden - with plenty of Full Sun available - the online Producer's Notes advise me to plant them in containers and not to ever move them outside. 
Which is a bit awkward now, so I've decided to re-frame the retail experience into a bold experiment in ignoring the Producer's Notes that you don't get to access until after you impulse-buy them, and see what happens. 
Frivolous, perhaps, and definitely nonchalant, but it feels so good to stick it up the authors of those dumbass Notes.
So far.

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