Cut flower variety
Amaranthus Love Lies Bleeding
Amaranthus spp. / Amaranthus
Amaranthus caudatus 'Love Lies Bleeding' is the classic red trailing amaranth: a fast, heat-loving annual with long crimson tassels that hang from strong stems and bring instant drama to bouquets, installations, and dried flower work. It is simple to raise from seed once the weather is warm, but it should not be treated casually in production. The crop needs full sun, warm soil, modest fertility, steady establishment moisture, support netting in exposed sites, and careful harvest handling so the heavy tassels do not tangle, bruise, or bend. For a flower farmer, its value is not in being a high-volume everyday filler; its value is in giving arrangements a shape and movement that few other annuals can provide.
Overview
Why growers use it
Amaranthus caudatus 'Love Lies Bleeding' is the classic red trailing amaranth: a fast, heat-loving annual with long crimson tassels that hang from strong stems and bring instant drama to bouquets, installations, and dried flower work. It is simple to raise from seed once the weather is warm, but it should not be treated casually in production. The crop needs full sun, warm soil, modest fertility, steady establishment moisture, support netting in exposed sites, and careful harvest handling so the heavy tassels do not tangle, bruise, or bend. For a flower farmer, its value is not in being a high-volume everyday filler; its value is in giving arrangements a shape and movement that few other annuals can provide.
Floral use
Design and market fit
Role
Focal
Texture
Long fuzzy pendant tassels with tropical foliage and strong visual weight
Tone
Rich, dramatic, warm, moody, saturated, old-world, autumnal
Form
Trailing tassel; pendant rope; cascading line; drooping raceme
Bouquet fit
Moody florist, bold tropical, earthy autumn, jewel tones, cottage garden, dramatic market bouquet, foam-free installation, editorial wedding work
Event use
Autumn weddings, moody weddings, harvest dinners, dramatic installations, cultural events, Halloween-season palettes, tropical-themed arrangements, and large-scale ceremony pieces.
Color notes
Orange, Cream, Green, Coral
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Other varieties in this crop
Amaranthus Autumn Palette
Orange / Texture / filler
Warm cream, green, bronze, copper, and orange-brown upright amaranth plumes for textural summer and autumn cutting.
Open variety
Amaranthus Autumn’s Touch
Green / Focal
'Autumn’s Touch' is a warm-season upright amaranth grown for muted green, bronze and copper plumes that feel very different from bright red or lime-green amaranths. It is especially useful when a farm wants a late-summer/autumn texture crop for dahlias, zinnias, celosia, grasses, subscriptions and florist orders. It should be positioned as a design crop: not a main focal flower, but a stem that gives bouquets depth, movement and a modern seasonal palette.
Open variety
Amaranthus Coral Fountain
Coral / Trailing texture / accent
Dusty coral-pink trailing amaranth with cascading tassels for dramatic fresh and dried floral design.
Open variety
Amaranthus Dreadlocks
Pink / Trailing texture / accent
Dusty magenta-burgundy trailing amaranth with cascading tassels for dramatic fresh and dried floral design.
Open variety
Amaranthus Elephant Head
Red / Focal
Amaranthus 'Elephant Head' is a bold warm-season annual grown for dense, dark burgundy, upright flower heads with a sculptural, almost cockscomb-like presence. It is not a soft filler; it is a statement texture crop for growers who want dramatic autumn stems, moody florist material, dried botanicals, and unusual market-bouquet ingredients. The crop is easy enough to grow in heat, but it needs warm soil, full sun, clean harvest handling, and careful market testing because the form is distinctive and can become coarse if grown too large.
Open variety
Amaranthus Emerald Tassels
Green / Focal
Emerald Tassels is best treated as a green trailing love-lies-bleeding amaranth for warm-season cut-flower production. It gives bouquets movement, texture and a soft botanical green that is difficult to replace with ordinary foliage. It is valuable for farm bouquets, florist work, installations, late-summer wedding designs and dried work, but it should be trialed separately from Green Tails and Green Cascade because supplier naming in green trailing amaranths can be inconsistent.
Open variety
Amaranthus Golden Giant
Yellow / Upright texture / accent
Tall golden-orange upright amaranth with large grain plumes for bold fresh and dried floral texture.
Open variety
Amaranthus Green Cascade
Green / Focal
Amaranthus caudatus is a warm-season annual grown for long pendulous tassels that bring movement, texture and drama to fresh bouquets, installations and dried arrangements. It is easy compared with premium cuts, but requires warmth, sun, support, correct harvest stage and quick hydration.
Open variety
Amaranthus Green Giant
Green / Focal
Amaranthus 'Green Giant' is best handled as a tall, vigorous green upright amaranth for bold texture stems. It can be useful where growers need height, chartreuse-green structure and dried material, but it should be trialed before scaling because the name is not as consistently documented as some other amaranth cultivars.
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