Alas, the flora I became so extremely joyful with just a month inside the beyond have now fallen down at the project. Literally. The first time we had a in reality robust typhoon, all of the ones tall blue cornflowers flopped over forwards. They subsequently righted themselves, but the next hurricane despatched them tumbling down again, and this time they did not get better. And because of the fact they may be all bent over forward, maximum of the shorter vegetation (which include candytuft, California poppies, and the new rose mallows that had truly started to appear) for the time being are largely buried.
I Googled the problem and found that this isn't unusual behavior for cornflowers. This gardening guide advises putting "peony cages" over them while they're still small to keep them from falling over. I doubt that would have been feasible in this flowerbed, with so many of them growing so close together, but in any case, it's a bit late late to try it now. Other sites recommend staking them, but I don't think it would work in a bed this size with lots of other flowers. An article in the North American Farmer says planting them in "mixed plantings" will help give them support, but it didn't seem to help in this case because all the other flowers in the bed were shorter. Maybe once some of the the taller flowers (such as cosmos, chrysanthemums, and coreopsis) have reached their full height, they'll help hold up the bachelor's buttons—but how to keep the bed from looking scraggly until then?
So an extended way, all I've been able to consider is to go alongside the mattress, trimming all of the spent flower heads that I may also need to without difficulty reach off the stems to lessen their weight. (This is some thing the lawn guide says you have to do anyway to
