Globe Amaranth / Bachelors Button (Gomphrena globosa) seeds

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Globe Amaranth / Bachelor's Button (Gomphrena globosa) seeds

Contents: Approx. 100 seeds
Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly

18,01 kn

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SKU: GOM01

GTIN: 4251420518071

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Description
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Globe Amaranth is a great annual flower from Central and South America. It blooms from July to the first frosts and is perfectly suitable as a cut and dried flower. The blossoms are globular with a diameter of approx. 3cm and shine in a beautiful magenta-purple colour shade. However, every inflorescence consists of many small single blossoms. As good nectar and pollen givers, these strongly attract useful insects like bees and are a good food source. In case you'd like to dry the blossoms, you shouldn't let them blossom fully but cut them in an early stage and tie them up upside down on a dry, dark spot.

Globe Amaranth is also known as a medicinal plant. You can prepare the dried blossoms as tea, which is said to help a lot with coughing and hoarseness.

Plant description

Species:	Amaranthaceae
Plant type:	Summer flower Container plant
Region of origin:	South America Central America
Use:	Cut flower Container plant Ornamental plant Medicinal plant Good insect food plant Herb tea plant Dried flower
Characteristics:	Food for bees Not winter-hardy
Climate:	Subtropical Tropical Dry
Lifecycle:	Annual
Eventual height:	20-60 cm
Flowering months:	July August September October
Scoville:	Keine

Growing advice

Soil type:	Humus-rich Moderate nutrient levels Sandy Free-draining Dry
Sowing depth:	0.5 cm
Planting distance:	25 cm
Bad companion plants:	Keine
Good companion plants:	Sea Lavender Goldstrohblume Golden Everlasting
Sunlight:	Full sun
Water requirement:	Low
Germination time:	2-3 weeks
Germination temperature:	15-20°C 18-24° C
When to sow outdoors:	May

Annual, non-hardy summer flower. Preculture is possible from mid-March indoors or direct sowing outdoors from mid-May. Sowing depth: 0.5cm. The seeds germinate at approx. +20°C within 2-3 weeks. After the last frosts, precultivated seedlings can be transplanted outdoors.

Other names

Botanical name:	Gomphrena globosa
German names:	Echter Kugelamarant
French names:	Amarantine Globuleuse, Amarantine, Amarantoïde, Immortelle À Boutons
English names:	Globe Amaranth, Globe Flower, Red Globe Everlasting, Devil's Clover, Bachelor's Button

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Manufacturer information: Magic Garden Seeds GmbH | Junkersstraße 7 | Regensburg, Germany, 93055 | service@magicgardenseeds.com | https://www.magicgardenseeds.com

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