With its charming purple blooms and an impressive ability to attract butterflies, bees, and even hummingbirds, gomphrena (Gomphrena globosa) is one of the best flowers around for bringing pollinators ...

Pink Zazzle is a new gomphrena with iridescent hot pink flowers that are so incredibly beautiful they have a hypnotic effect on me. Pink Zazzle is a new hybrid gomphrena with flowers larger than a ...

A tough plant that will keep blooming through summer and into fall, gomphrena likes really high temperatures. Also called globe amaranth, legend has it that the original planting was at the gates of ...

Flame Proof, Perfect Score All Season, Leader of the Pack, and Top Performer are a few of the award designations for "Truffula Pink" gomphrena. It has now taken in 50 such trophies. If your state has ...

Gomphrena, such as this All-Around Purple, are strong garden performers that thrive in the Mississippi heat and humidity. Gary Bachman Mississippi State University Extension Service If you’re looking ...

Carmine is not a word I grew up with in describing color. It is a vivid crimson, and the QIS Carmine gomphrena is a prime example. If you were partnering a color, an intense yellow gold would be ...

Is it too late to plant? If you’re like me, those discount prices at garden nurseries are enough to make you give it a try. Plus there are those bare spots in the garden where spring plants have ...

If there was a flower that was the proverbial poster child of underutilized flowers it would have to be the globe amaranth or gomphrena. Two years ago, the Ping Pong series slipped under the radar ...

A nice summer annual plant is Gomphrena pulchella “Fireworks,” more commonly known as Globe Amaranth “Fireworks” or Gomphrena “Fireworks.” The leaves are a dull medium-green color and linear in shape, ...

If there was a flower that was the proverbial poster child of underutilized flowers it would have to be the globe amaranth or gomphrena. Two years ago, the Ping Pong series slipped under the radar ...