Mom Mary in the cosmos outside Witsieshoek back ca. 1970:

Sheila years later at the foot of the eastern tip of Platberg – some call it Bobbejaankop:

Sheila sent a 2018 pic of Brenda Sharratt in the cosmos behind Platberg:

Apparently cosmos got here in horsefeed imported from Argentina during the Boer War for the Poms’ horses. Hopefully only the seed, as the greenery must have tasted foul! It has a pungent smell.

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wikipedia: Cosmos is native to scrub and meadowland in Mexico where most of the species occur, as well as the USA, Central America and South America as far south as Paraguay.  One mainly Mexican species, Cosmos bipinnatus, is naturalized and widespread over the high eastern plains of South Africa. It has also spread to the West Indies, Italy, Australia and Asia.

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cosmos niks – free! literally ‘costs nothing’

pic from Getaway mag