Have you grown this annual? Globe Amaranth

     Happy Valentine's Day.  Unbelievable weather here no clouds, blue sky, a breeze but the temperature is at noon is 42 degrees.  I have all the doors open on the greenhouse because there is some power with the sun and it is warming the greenhouse up nicely.  That will be what I do with this warm weather all this week.  NOW have you ever grown this plant?  Globe Amaranth  or another name everlasting. 
 
      Universally popular, this old-fashioned must-grow has clover-esque, colorful blooms that are wonderful additions to fresh and dried bouquets. These flowers are actually clustered bracts~the true flowers within the bracts are teesy and difficult to see. It is best started indoors 6 to 8 weeks before transplanting outside after the threat of spring frost has passed. To use as a dried flower, cut the plant at the base or snip individual stems when the flowers are about an inch in size. Bundle and hang upside down from your garage rafters out of direct sunlight until dry. But do use them in fresh arrangements too~they have a vase life of more than two weeks! Deer resistant. Annual. Summer flowering.
Taken from  https://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/seed-index/flowers/bouquet/globe-amaranth/globe-amaranth-strawberry-fields.html
Till next time, this is Becky Litterer from Becky's Greenhouse, Dougherty Iowa