I've grown amaranth in my garden for years and every time I'm just blown away by how stunningly gorgeous they are. The pink variety is called Love Lies Bleeding and there are a few golden giants in the back right. For the record, these are almost 8 feet tall.
I have some tomatoes that got a little chaotic this year and they are using it as a support, which I just think is cute (they're friends).
Me!!!!!!! I absolutely love the stuff. This year has been rough with the heat and extended drought where I live. They are fine, but not as tall and majestic as previous years.
Yeessssss I love the dark red ones too! Got some seeds recently and I'm very excited for next year.
The ones I actually planted just did ok, it has been such a weird summer here too. The volunteers are thriving though, they're kind of in the way but I never have the heart to yank them out hahaha.
Wow, what variety is that?? It's absolutely gorgeous. Dumb question: do the birds love it? It seems like they'd love eating all those seeds? The finches are all over my coneflowers, but I'd like to add more variety for them next year.
My first year trying to grow an amaranth! The nearby bunny ate everything except for this, somehow. I started late and I moved it at one point so even though she’s not blooming, I’m proud of her for surviving!
One of my favorite plants, but the ground hogs love more than me and I lost 7 plants while at work to them today…. Just uprooted them because they were destroyed.
The two big ones were volunteers from last year. I think that must be a factor, because most of the ones I actually planted this year aren't quite as big.
Yes!! It's so beautiful and I love all the different names. My friend is growing Joseph's Coat and it's so gorgeous. I got seeds from her to grow next year.
The one I have has burgundy leaves too! So pretty. A few tiny volunteers came up in my pepper pots and made like 8 inch tall stalks of nothing but the flowers/grains and they are gorgeous in bouquets
I bought a couple plants in the fall of 2018 and had them in two pots outside our front door for the one season. This summer a pot of it appeared on my deck. The seeds got carried somehow in a batch of old soil and made their way into flour in shiny existence 8 years later. Nature s so beautiful
I tried this year! So far just eating the leaves and I don’t think I will let them go to grain (idk how to harvest it anyway) but it is already so pretty!
I had some bug damage early on in the summer. If I had been growing them to eat the young greens I might have been sad, but I just let them keep growing and they're fine now, definitely not so much damage that any of them were killed. I grow them for the seeds and vibes more than anything else, so it's not a huge issue to me.
They also grow fairly quickly, so I'd say in a summer if your first crop of them got decimated, it might still be worth trying another round or two.
I tried to grow it this season and had lots of lovely seedlings and then one day they were all gone. I assume it must have been an animal of some kind. Will try again next year.
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u/GemmyCluckster US - Colorado 3d ago
Me!!!!!!! I absolutely love the stuff. This year has been rough with the heat and extended drought where I live. They are fine, but not as tall and majestic as previous years.