LOVE LIES BLEEDING

[ Amaranthus Caudatus ]

Season: Annual
Height: 3-5 Feet
Bloom Season: Summer/Fall
Environment: Full Sun/Partial Sun/Dry/Moist
Zones: All Regions of North America

Love Lies Bleeding [ Amaranthus Caudatus ] is an old fashioned favorite with some of the most unusual flowers you will ever grow. Love lies bleeding or tassel flower gets its unusual common name from its tiny blood red petal less flowers that bloom in narrow, drooping, tassel-like, terminal and auxiliary panicles throughout the growing season. The small red flowers are tightly packed on 18 Inches spikes with a pendant habit. Green leaves turn bronze as the season progresses. It is used to give height to formal flower beds and only takes 8-10 weeks from sowing the seeds to flowering.

Love Lies Bleeding [ Amaranthus Caudatus ] can be used for borders, beds, or hanging baskets. Plants grown in the ground may require staking. The plant is an everlasting ( Amaranthus comes from the Greek word for unfading ) and its flowers retain some color when dried for arrangements. Cut for fresh bouquets when 3/4 of the flowers on the stem are open. The flowers will stay fresh in water for 7-10 days. Pick for dried use when seed begins to set and the flowers are firm to the touch.

The plant is excellent as fresh cut flowers or dried flowers.

PLANTING

Sow Inside: 6-8 weeks before last frost
Sow Outside: Spring after last frost
Seed Depth: 1/16 Inch
Days to Emerge: 10-14

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