I grew this wonderful plant for the first time last year. If you could see the photos of these tall majestic deep red plumes all around the outside fence of my flower garden, you would be in awe! I have a small cut flower business and they were one of my top producers, with so many customer comments on their beauty. After the center plume is cut, many side shoots are produced. I highly recommend you giving this plant a try! (Note: this plant does need support since it can grow to 8 feet)

I started these along with a bunch of other flowers and herbs, and these were the first to sprout. I think all the seeds came up, I had to prick some out and get more containers. A few weeks on they are looking healthy and growing at a steady rate.

These guys withstood nibbles from pigweed weevils all year and still grew 5 feet tall with big flowers. They are GORGEOUS in the garden. Vibrant red leaves. Definitely will grow again!

I grew these as an attempt to see if I can get seeds. I haven't got that far (sorry for those of you wanting to know), but I am commenting now because I wanted to say all of these got hit with frost, badly, and killed the main leaves. I waited a week and when I went to rip them out, I realized that teeny little off shoots were starting at the base of the plant. Fast forward from May to now, and each plant is about 4-5" tall with3-4 mammoth sized flower heads. The ones that I hadn't transplanted, and didn't get hit with frost, only have one flower head. This leads me to want to try lobbing the flower heads off myself next year to see what I can get! Germination rate was excellent. They are a stunning pop of color in my flower garden, but it seems pollinators preferred the giant sunflowers, beebalm, catnip, and squash, all before the amaranth (in case pollinators were your purpose for growing amaranth).

planted the small plants started from seed out on a hill with zinnias. the deer nosed through but ate only small trees. i think the amaranth and zinnias are deer(and bunny) proof. they were beautiful.

Yes - great and timed with sunflowers for bouquets. Great anywhere in the garden. tolerates our clay soil. Reseeds itself for years - easy to recognize and remove if it comes up somewhere you don't want it.