Celosia, Celosia plumosa, are sturdy and easy to grow, love the heat, and behave a bit like ornamental grass with their spire-like blooms and tendency to catch the afternoon light and make everything look magical. The flowers also make great dry flowers, simple hang them upside down someplace cool and dark after harvest.
The Sunday Red Wine Celosia is a gorgeous color between red and pink, and each plant sends up numerous large spires laden with color.
Planting conditions: Not too picky, tolerant of a variety of soil types, and happiest in full sun. They can be planted quite close together, and look great planted in groups.
Care: Once they are happy and established in your garden, they are drought-tolerant, but will bloom more with more water.
Blooms: All summer. Deadhead the blooms regularly (meaning cut the flowers for bouquets, or if the flowers die on the plant cut them off) to encourage more blooms.
Self-seeding annual: Annuals, meaning they die over the winter, but they self-seed so they will naturally come back the following year in your garden.
Ships: as 3 plants in 3" diameter pots, in the Spring.
Growth habit: Upright, with tall spires of bloom.
Size when mature: 2.5-4' tall and 12" wide.
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PlantGem |
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CL-SW-3P |
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