{"title":"Amaranth Seeds","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmaranth means \"never fading,\" their wooly textured tassels hint at their longevity as dried blooms. Native to South America and an essential Aztec grain and ceremonial plant. By the 1660s, they were common in Tudor gardens, where the swags of dark red ropelike blooms inspired names such as the admiring Great Purple Flower Gentle and the grisly Nun's Scourge. Amaranth varieties come in awe-inspiring colors—parrot green, burnt orange, claret red, and burgundy. Flourishing in heat and humidity, they are at their best as a tropical centerpiece in a bed of summer annuals in well-drained soils.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amaranth-coral-fountain-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Coral Fountain'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis rare selection of a well-loved heirloom is a waterfall of blush flowers that have a wooly texture. Lovely with lime green tobacco and darker hues of coral such as coleus 'Redhead' or 'Campfire'. Easy to grow in regular soils, they abhor cold and do well when sown direct after frost into warm soil. They relish heat and humidity and come into their own in mid to late summer until frost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Organic Seed","offer_id":53181559275680,"sku":"S557OG","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Standard Seed","offer_id":53181559242912,"sku":"S557","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/557-6-2500.jpg?v=1759196865"},{"product_id":"amaranth-green-pearls-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Green Pearls' Organic","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe love uncommon green flowers for their unexpected vibrancy and often unique forms. This variety is a mix of long tails and ropes of flowers knotted along their length with a cascade of verdant pearls. A heat and humidity-loving annual that is easy to grow, adding drama to gardens and bouquets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073037660320,"sku":"S1714OG","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/1714-3-2500.jpg?v=1763520032"},{"product_id":"amaranth-green-tails-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Green Tails'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe soft chartreuse green tassels and yellow-green stems of 'Green Tails' harmonize with pale yellow 'Moonlight' nasturtiums and temper brassy yellow and vivid magenta or purple flowers. Dramatic mid to back border with the fine-textured foliage of cosmos as a foil, it is an easy grower that relishes the dog days of summer. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Organic Seed","offer_id":48994938290336,"sku":"S300OG","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Standard Seed","offer_id":48994938257568,"sku":"S300","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/300-2-zoom.jpg?v=1687464178"},{"product_id":"amaranth-love-lies-bleeding-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Love Lies Bleeding'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Purple Flower Gentle of 16th-century herbals, this long-loved heirloom flower has wooly-textured garnet blooms that spill toward the ground. They are eye-catching additions to the cottage garden, paired with Cleome, and cut for fresh or dried bouquets. The name Amaranthus once signified 'unwithering.' \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Organic Seed","offer_id":52143670493344,"sku":"S301OG","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Standard Seed","offer_id":52143670526112,"sku":"S301","price":3.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/301-2-zoom.jpg?v=1687545510"},{"product_id":"amaranth-mira-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Mira'","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeveloping quickly in the heat of summer, the multi-hued rose and pale green flowers of Mira are dramatic cut flowers for large bouquets. 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Cleome's delicate foliage and large airy flowers are a good companion for these large-leaved plants. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073038905504,"sku":"S614","price":3.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/614-4-2500.jpg?v=1763519867"},{"product_id":"amaranth-autumns-touch-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Autumn's Touch'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe huge plumes of copper flowers tinted with apple green ripen large quantities of edible seeds and attract fleets of darting birds in late fall. Multi-branching with strong stems for loads of unusual cut flowers in summer and fall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073039560864,"sku":"S1238","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/1238-3-2500.jpg?v=1732621082"},{"product_id":"amaranth-oeschberg-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Oeschberg'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmaranth 'Oeschberg' is a rediscovered heirloom circa 1952, still valued for its large, upright plumes of burgundy and its ability to thrive in hot, humid summer conditions. Eggplant purple leaves and flower spikes smolder among deepest red flowers and chartreuse green amaranths in the back border. An Award of Garden Merit honors this full, long-blooming selection. Beautiful and useful, too; the young plants harvested as salad greens and the nutritious seeds that mature in late summer feed you and the local birds! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Standard Seed","offer_id":52142005977248,"sku":"S250","price":3.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Organic Seed","offer_id":52142006010016,"sku":"S250OG","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/250-3-1000.jpg?v=1687464197"},{"product_id":"amaranth-elephants-head-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Elephant's Head'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmaranth 'Elephant's Head' is a dramatic flower with stout stems holding giant flower heads resembling a trumpeting elephant. An edible heirloom from the late Victorian era, it traveled to America with a German family intent on establishing a fruitful home here, and is a time-tested decorative amaranth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073042051232,"sku":"S1823","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/1823-1-zoom.jpg?v=1687464207"},{"product_id":"amaranth-chinese-giant-orange-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Chinese Giant Orange' Organic","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Greek word amaranthos, which means never fading, these flowers are decorative dried for large bouquets. With its bright orange flowers and commanding height, this amaranth is a stunning addition to your garden. It is also an excellent food source: the young greens are delicious and very high in essential vitamins and minerals; the abundant tiny seeds are a popular and nutritious grain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073042509984,"sku":"S975OG","price":3.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/975-2-zoom.jpg?v=1687464210"},{"product_id":"amaranth-green-thumb-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Green Thumb'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis amaranth has unique, surreal-looking intensely green flower spires emerging from a compact, bushy plant. 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Edible young leaves and multitudes of blonde seeds late in the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073043067040,"sku":"S1643OG","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/1643-4-zoom.jpg?v=1687465669"},{"product_id":"amaranth-josephs-coat-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Joseph's Coat'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLarge-leaved amaranth Joseph's Coat has beautiful foliage in vivid color combinations. Beloved since Elizabethan times in England, when old herbals described it, \"every leaf resembles in color the most fair and beautiful feather of a parrot.\" A featured plant of Monticello's floral gardens, this ever-popular plant has beautiful foliage in vivid combinations of yellow, scarlet, and green that develop in summer on the upper leaves of this sturdy, large-leaved edible annual. A heat lover that thrives in the high humidity of full summer, it is lovely paired with grasses and salvias in the border.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073043329184,"sku":"S976","price":3.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/976-3-zoom.jpg?v=1687464224"},{"product_id":"amaranth-molten-fire-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Molten Fire'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuther Burbank, the famed plant breeder and scientist, introduced this \"glistening, fiery, rosy-crimson\" flower in 1922. Its young, leafy seedlings make delicious and nutritious cooked greens. As summer progresses, the bronzy maroon leaves develop the rich coloring that gives it its name. Grow with fine-textured grasses or pair with its kissing cousin Joseph's Coat for a vibrant late summer garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44073043689632,"sku":"S1222","price":3.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/products\/1222-2-zoom.jpg?v=1687464227"},{"product_id":"amaranth-velvet-curtains-seeds","title":"Amaranth 'Velvet Curtains'","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the amaranths once called Prince's Feather for its showy, fluffy top-knot of cherry-red flowers. 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Compact and easy to grow, with drought tolerance once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Select Seeds, Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241877041312,"sku":"S2016OG","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/files\/2016-1-2500.jpg?v=1738774242"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9372\/6112\/collections\/250-3-1000.jpg?v=1687986786","url":"https:\/\/www.selectseeds.mom\/collections\/amaranth-seeds.oembed","provider":"Select Seeds, Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}