This cosmos comes on very late. In my garden it was a very odd color, not a nice apricot but a lavender pink with bronzy blush. It was an odd color that did not stand out well in any bouquet and was hard to match to other flowers. However, it did go strongly until an actual hard frost...I think we used it into mid November. It wa actually very prolific once it started. I think I bought the seeds from Germania. I actually like Campus yellow a lot better. It was also very late but the flowers were a pale sulfer yellow that mixed nicely with other flowers.