{"id":6339,"date":"2015-04-15T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2021-02-22T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:11:40","slug":"gomphrena-globe-amaranth-for-summer-easy-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/04\/15\/gomphrena-globe-amaranth-for-summer-easy-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Gomphrena (Globe Amaranth) For Summer Easy Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late summer display of Gomphrenas at UT Gardens in Knoxville, TN<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gomphrena, aka Globe amaranth,\u00a0is an annual bedding plant that blooms profusely in the summer heat and sun. Small ball-shaped flowers are clove-like\u00a0 in appearance.\u00a0Many gardeners\u00a0tend to\u00a0ignore them\u00a0at the garden center\u00a0for showier flowering annuals. By mid-summer, a peek\u00a0into your neighbor’s yard may cause to rethink that decision.\u00a0Gomphrenas root down deeply\u00a0and\u00a0bloom way into the autumn, often without additional care. Dried gomphrena flowers are favorites of florists.<\/p>\n

Depending on\u00a0the choice of variety, plants grow 10 to 24 inches high and 12 to 16 inches spread. Their color palette includes purple, pink, orange-salmon, and red. Gomphrena’s small flowers\u00a0are magnets\u00a0for attracting\u00a0butterflies and other nectar feeders to\u00a0garden beds\u00a0and\u00a0containers.<\/p>\n

Gomphrenas prosper in full sun and in\u00a0average well-drained soil. Space plants a foot or so apart.\u00a0Add a slow-release fertilizer to each planting hole.\u00a0 If summer leaves look chlorotic, 1-2 applications of a water-soluble fertilizer such as Miracle-Gro, Nature’s Source and Daniels will green them back up. Once plants are well established, water needs become minimal.<\/p>\n

Gomphrenas\u00a0attract very few insect pests and no diseases. Spider mites\u00a0may be troublesome when weather is exceptionally dry.\u00a0A blast of water\u00a0to the underside of leaves reduces their populations without resorting to\u00a0pesticides.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fireworks\u2019 is\u00a0one of the new generation of gomphrena cultivars;\u00a0one inch flowers appear as\u00a0explosions of pink with yellow stamens.\u00a0\u2018Audray Bicolor Rose\u2019 has two-toned flowers,\u00a0rose\u00a0colored at the base and\u00a0white on top. The Las Vegas series (white, pink, purple) have been outstanding performers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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‘Audray Bicolor Rose’ gomphrena, Kingwood Center, Mansfield Ohio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gomphrena, aka Globe amaranth,\u00a0is an annual bedding plant that blooms profusely in the summer heat and sun. Small ball-shaped flowers are clove-like\u00a0 in appearance.\u00a0Many gardeners\u00a0tend to\u00a0ignore them\u00a0at the garden center\u00a0for showier flowering annuals. By mid-summer, a peek\u00a0into your neighbor’s yard may cause to rethink that decision.\u00a0Gomphrenas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,707,749,710,674,806,665,1138,602,1042,742,551,843,777,630,706],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}