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The Weekly Bloom: Week of August 28th

Zinnia 'Profusion'

I’ve always been a gardener who has looked down my nose a bit at annuals—those flowers that need replanting every single year. Aren’t they a bit pedestrian, invented for those folks who don’t have the good sense to buy a perennial and watch it come back year after year?

Except that they are gorgeous.
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Unusual Edible Ornamental

Amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus)

I have been asked two questions repeatedly this week. The first by visitors to the Sacred Earth garden: “What is the red plant?” The second by people eating lunch with me: “Why is your lunch bright pink?

The answer to both is the same: Amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus).
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