tried to grow a chocolate cosmos in this pot but i am unsure as to what is actually growing in it





any thoughts appreciated

Well, not a cosmos, but I don't know what.

Those funny tiny round bits under the leaves are called stipules.
I believe your plant is a Salix sp.
A willow.

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I tried chocolate cosmos too but none of the seeds sprouted.

What's the red flower?

It's definitely a weed, I'd yank it out before it gets too huge.

the red flower is a quartz scarlet verbena in the pot behind

I did grow a chocolate cosmos one year, and even got it to bloom before it expired from the relentless heat here. The flowers are lovely and absolutely do smell like chocolate.

Recommend you buy a plant already started, rather than trying to start it from seed. The company I got mine from didn't sell them this year, but I've seen them available online. Here it is at Burpee's but they only ship it in the spring, it seems http://www.burpee.com/flowers/...

I have never had luck with Choc. Cosmos
The color was not as promised the first time and two other attempts never germinated.