Pruning it will make it easier to harvest its fruits later. As a result, your other plants may not grow well. If you do not prune it, then it may block sunlight to other plants in your garden. As mentioned before, it blooms profusely. If you want your Globe Amaranth plants to produce more flowers and fruits, then you should prune them. The plant tends to dry up and die back in the winter. During the fall, the plant turns yellow, until the plant dies back for the winter. The flowering period of the Globe Amaranth begins in early spring and lasts until the first frost. It is a tropical plant, so it cannot tolerate cold temperatures but can survive in cooler temperatures, but it does not do well in frost. It is best to grow with an average temperature of 70 degrees. The most important factor to consider when growing globe amaranth is temperature. Water it shallowly when the weather or the soil is hot. Water Globe Amaranth deeply and less frequently when in active growth. I heartily recommend trying these wonderful flowers in your cuts garden…you don’t see them very often and they won’t let you down…as with all my seeds…if you are not happy for any reason then you get your money back.So, it will survive with less water than most other plants, but it will grow taller and fuller with regular watering. I have Gomphrena ‘Strawberry Fields’ at £1.95 for 40 seeds. …or swap the citrus greens for Cornflower ‘Blue Ball’ for a right ole royal knees up. *I think the bright red of ‘Strawberry Fields’ looks great with plenty of flouncy Cosmos to soften it up…Cosmos ‘Purity’ is best…and then add some zingy citrus green foliage like Nicotiana ‘Lime Green’ or Bupleurum…thinking about it, I bet Dill ‘Mammoth’ would work too…and add some height.
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*Mulching around your plants will of course help keep moisture in…and weeds at bay…and your neighbours will think you are organised and professional (fools). *Gomphrena should flower from about 12 weeks after sowing…sometimes sooner in a good summer…and I think we are in for a cracking summer.
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*Space out your plants to about a foot apart…in a weed free bed…that gets lashings of sunshine…think Brazil…not Basildon.
*I make a first in the beginning of April and then plant out about six weeks later…but make double sure you have no frost forecast. *Use a good compost…preferably a good peat free compost…don’t skimp here…it’s not worth it. *I start mine in module trays…I have never direct sown them…though I suspect this wouldn’t be a problem as long as you sow after the frosts.
I have found them really super easy to raise from seed…in fact in the tray pictured I had 100% germination…and once planted out they will look after themselves…even in drought.
In its true form the bracts are magenta but cultivars are available in reds, pinks and lilacs. Gomphrena globosa is more commonly known as Globe Amaranth and is an annual flower that can grow up to two feet. Within a year, every vase in every town, in every country in South America was baying for Sebastian’s Gomphrenas. In the 1920’s when the Higgledy Garden kept cut flower fields in Panama, Sebastian Higgledy, the then custodian, came across the wonderful Gomphrena ‘Strawberry Fields’ growing in the front garden of the local, ex pats, swinger’s club…he wasted no time in attempting to grow the flower from seed and by jingo it was a roaring success.
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