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Celosia – Flamingo Feathers

Bright and fluffy cones with pink tips – they add the loveliest textures and colours to your garden and arrangements.

 

The feathery blooms of Celosia were one of my favourite additions to my garden last year. They add a lovely texture and colour to an arrangements, and can be harvested hung up to dry to use in dried displays. The more you harvest the more blooms you will get, so you can enjoy them all summer long! Grown from Flamingo Celosia flower seeds, with pink feather shaped plumes. They have been left to open pollinate with the other two varieties of Celosia in my garden (Floret Spun Sugar and Floret Rose Gold) so plants will have some shared traits of these other two varieties too.

 

Seeds cannot be shipped to WA, TAS or NT 

$8.00

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Description

Seeds:  approx 1/4tsp celosia seeds (I stopped counting at 200 seeds and there were many more left to count)
Sow: in mid/late Spring in punnets and plant out after weather warms up. Pinch out at approx 20cm height to stimulate more flower stems.
Harvest: Cut blooms with long stems deep into plant to encourage more blooms with long stems.
Seed-saving: The tiny black seeds are plentiful and easy to collect for next season. As blooms dry, they will release the seeds. Leave one or two flower heads on the plant to mature for a few weeks, before harvesting and drying. Then gently tap/crush the dried flower to release the seeds.

Please keep in mind I am a home gardener and while I have been saving and sowing my own seeds myself for years, they will sometimes not grow exactly as planned. Germination rates may vary, but I am being generous with the amount of seeds in each packet to account for this.