GOMPHRENA GLOBOSA

GOMPHRENA GLOBOSA-EVERLASTING FLOWER

 GOMPHRENA GLOBOSA 

Common names 

Bachelor's Button; English Clover; Globe Amaranth; 

Poetical language- I change not 

This is the most valuable of the entire Amaranth family, ranking in value next to Helichrysum and Acroclinium. It is a good garden plant and an old favorie for pots. There are white, fleshy, orange, pink and striped varieties, but no other sort is as popular or handsome as the familiar rosy-crimson one. The bright clover- like heads are usually left  until well matured, though even the buds dry well work up beautifully. These dried flowers do not change color or shape in the least, and form is a welcome change from the daisy or types of nearly all the other immortelles. In Portugal it is raised in great quantities for decorations. It is a tender quick growing annual, growing 18 inches to 2 feet high. It  grows well, when once started in the open ground, but the seeds should be sown in hot bed or in box in the house. The cottony covering be removed from the seeds, as they germinate  better when this is done.  

References:

Mayflower 1904