Among the summer flowers that are invaluable for drying are globe amaranth.

The most common cultivar is known as Strawberry Fields globe amaranth.

Conversely, some seeds, including those of Oriental poppies, globe amaranth and pansies, germinate better in the dark.

One sprang up alongside a spray of hot pink globe amaranth; another was blanketed by browning petals, moss and leaves.

Her Friendship Wreath includes dried roses, globe amaranth, rosemary, sage, dianthus and statice.

Flowers commonly used in flowering teas include globe amaranth, chrysanthemum, jasmine, lily, hibiscus, and osmanthus.

There's still time to sow seeds of fast-growing annuals like marigolds, sunflowers, cosmos, globe amaranth, tithonia and zinnias.

It's not too late to plant seeds for cosmos, globe amaranth, marigolds (Lemon Gem is a beauty), tithonia, sunflowers and zinnias.

Gomphrena globosa, commonly known as Globe Amaranth or Bachelor Button, is an annual plant that grows up to 24 inches in height.

Purple or Blue: Aster, butterfly shrub, delphinium, globe amaranth, hydrangea, larkspur, lavender, liatris, salvia, sea holly, statice, stock.

Suggested flowers to air dry include: strawflowers, goldenrod, hydrangeas, celosia (crested and plumed types), globe amaranth, salvia, Xeranthemum and many of the "everlastings."

Among the long-lasting annuals you can still add now are browallia, lantana, globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa), ageratum, cigarflower (Cuphea ignea) and cleome.

Some sun-loving annuals you might enjoy are African daisy (Arctotis), cosmos, verbena, lantana, globe amaranth, strawflower, love-in-a-mist, calendula, gazania and nasturtium.

Acrid Crowfoot, Bachelor's Buttons, Blisterweed, Botón de Oro, Burrwort, Globe Amaranth, Gold Cup, Meadow Buttercup, Meadowbloom, Ranunculus acris, Ranunculus acris subsp.

"It is my garden, after all," the woman said coldly, moving to water a row of bright blue bachelor buttons.

Around her bloom pink and blue bachelor buttons and little white daisies.

Last call to sow seed of calendula and bachelor buttons where they are to bloom in the garden.

Remember the old bachelor button?

They include foxglove, vinca, periwinkle, myrtle, jasmine and bachelor buttons.

Seed of many annuals can be sown directly where they are to grow, particularly nasturtiums, zinnias and bachelor buttons.

Blue gingham curtains hung in the windows and there were glasses of plastic roses and bachelor buttons on all the tables.

Let it rest a week before sowing cool-weather vegetables and frost-tolerant annuals like larkspur, bachelor buttons and sweet peas.

And "if they behave as expected," Ms. Stanwell said, the delphiniums, snap dragons, bachelor buttons and salpiglossis should be up.

But the horticulturalist and curator said when they substitute, they stick with plants that would have been used early in this century, like bachelor buttons and nasturtium.

Gomphrena globosa, commonly known as Globe Amaranth or Bachelor Button, is an annual plant that grows up to 24 inches in height.

Someone has described it as a long, low, well-built log house in a beautiful old-fashioned garden, where roses, lilacs, sweet williams, bachelor buttons, marigolds, and other flowers grew luxuriantly.

There are also bachelor buttons and grasses - Indian grass, switch grass, broomsedge, Canada wild rye, sand dropseed and sheep fescue - but these plants are still small.

The fun aspect of this stoneware is the different patterns and individual hand painted designs, from Bachelor Button, Country Flowers, hummingbirds, 12 Days of Christmas, Noah's Ark, etc.

Most recently, she added a flowering meadow below the high back wall overlooking the Hudson River, planted with Lady Apple trees, caraway poppies, bachelor buttons, daffodils and a spirea hedge, promising riotous color as the season progresses.

BEFORE the weekend was through, we were to sample some of the other astonishing combinations for which Sooke Harbour House is known: the salad of edible flowers - calendula, bachelor buttons, thyme blossoms and flowering kale, in a bright red tuberous begonia vinaigrette.

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Among the long-lasting annuals you can still add now are browallia, lantana, globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa), ageratum, cigarflower (Cuphea ignea) and cleome.

In host range studies it has been shown to cause local lesions on Chenopodium amaraticolor and Gomphrena globosa and a systemic infection in barley (Hordeum vulgare), another member of the grass family, Poaceae or Gramineae .