Arrabona Red Celosia Seeds
Bushy, Bright, and SO Long-blooming!
Great branching means more blooms than ever
- Genus: Celosia
- Species: plumosa
- Variety: 'Arrabona Red'
- Item Form: (P) Pkt of 20 seeds
- Bloom Start To End: Mid Summer - Mid Fall
- Habit: Compact
- Seeds Per Pack: 20
- Plant Height: 10 in - 14 in
- Plant Width: 10 in - 15 in
- Additional Characteristics: Award Winner, Bloom First Year, Butterfly Lovers, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Flower, Free Bloomer, Long Bloomers
- Bloom Color: Orange, Red
- Foliage Color: Olive Green
- Light Requirements: Full Sun
- Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
- Resistance: Drought Tolerant, Heat Tolerant
- Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy
- Uses: Beds, Containers, Cut Flowers, Outdoor
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Bred in Budapest and named for an ancient Hungarian city, Arrabona is technically an intermediate-sized Celosia, though its compact, dense habit is a bit wider than you might expect. The first of its kind to really flower heavily on side-shoots, it sets massive flames of brightest scarlet with a hint of orange. Expect the blooms to begin in midsummer from a spring sowing, and to continue well into fall.
Arrabona stands just 10 to 14 inches high and up to 15 inches wide. It craves sunshine and heat, thriving in semi-tropical climates as effortlessly as it does in milder areas. Very tolerant of drought, it's the type of plant you can fearlessly grow in containers right through the worst summer heat. But it also looks terrific in a large garden planting, as an accent, and even as knock-em-dead edging!
Celosia walked off with top honors at the 2014 Fleuroselect Awards in Europe, and it's easy to see why. The seed has a higher germination rate than older varieties, and the color is a new -- and blindingly bright! -- shade for the family. Best of all, you can grow a large planting of Arrabona and expect all the plants to reach almost exactly the same height and width. They will bloom at the same time, too. This uniformity makes them superb for formal settings and the wildly diverse annual bed as well!
Like most Celosia, Arrabona prefers to be direct-sown, and once it has germinated, it would rather not be moved. Sow the seed outdoors well after all danger of frost has passed, setting it just 1/8-inch deep and covering lightly. It should sprout in 5 to 7 days. Thin the plants to about 8 inches apart for dense, leaf-to-leaf coverage. They should be blooming by mid-July from a May sowing.
If you prefer to begin them indoors, here's how: Sow them at 75 to 80 degrees F, 1/8-inch deep and covered lightly. After germination, grow on at 70 degrees F, and bottom-water with lukewarm water to avoid chills. The seedlings are usually ready to transplant in just 3 weeks. When you set them outdoors, protect them from direct sun for about a week while they acclimatize.
Bred by master plantsman Dr. Zoltan Kovats at the Research Institute of Budapest, Arrabona Red is a breakthrough in color, branching, and flowering ability. We can't wait to grow it again in our trials this season, and we hope it will be a big part of your annual bed, too! Packet is 20 seeds.
Celosia Germination Information
Celosia is the botanical name for Cockscomb
How to Sow Celosia: - When danger of frost is past, sow outdoors where plants are to grow
- Indoors, sow 4 weeks prior to planting outside
- Cover the seeds with 4 times their thickness in soil
- Maintain 70-75° F within the medium during germination
- Germination takes 10-15 days
- Blooms arrive 12-14 weeks after starting seeds. Sowing too early can hurt flower performance
- When sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Celosia:
Spacing: In spring, after danger of frost is past, space 6-18 inches apart in full sun in a well-drained, sandy soil rich in organic matter
Temperature: It prefers warm climates with nights above 60° F
Soil: Keep soil evenly moist and feed plants moderately
Additional Care: Celosia transplants easily, requires no staking and tolerates heat and drought. Mulch in summer to keep the roots cool and retain moisture
Appearance and Use:
This trouble-free annual, with colorful blooms for cutting or drying, is used as an edging, in borders or beds, in containers or for greenhouse growth. Plants, growing 6- 36 inches tall and 8-12 inches wide, range from stately and stiffly branched to dwarf and compact. Tiny blooms of red, orange, yellow, pink, or purple are held in combs or spikes, 11/2- 21/4 inches wide. Soft, lush green foliage is oval- to lance-shape and can have a bronze appearance
Cristata group: The inforescence is terminal, flattened, and crested, resembling the comb of a rooster
Plumosa group: The blooms are erect, tapering and feather-like
Spicata group: Slender heads of blooms
About Celosia:
Pronunciation: sel-o-se-ä âr-jen’-te-ä
Lifecycle: Annual
Origination: Amaranthaceae; native to the Tropics of Asia, Africa, and the Americas
Common Name:Cockscomb
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed. We do buy a small amount of traditional hybrid seed from Seminis, a division of Monsanto Co., but that is all we purchase from them.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.
Bred in Budapest and named for an ancient Hungarian city, Arrabona is technically an intermediate-sized Celosia, though its compact, dense habit is a bit wider than you might expect. The first of its kind to really flower heavily on side-shoots, it sets massive flames of brightest scarlet with a hint of orange. Expect the blooms to begin in midsummer from a spring sowing, and to continue well into fall.
Arrabona stands just 10 to 14 inches high and up to 15 inches wide. It craves sunshine and heat, thriving in semi-tropical climates as effortlessly as it does in milder areas. Very tolerant of drought, it's the type of plant you can fearlessly grow in containers right through the worst summer heat. But it also looks terrific in a large garden planting, as an accent, and even as knock-em-dead edging!
Celosia walked off with top honors at the 2014 Fleuroselect Awards in Europe, and it's easy to see why. The seed has a higher germination rate than older varieties, and the color is a new -- and blindingly bright! -- shade for the family. Best of all, you can grow a large planting of Arrabona and expect all the plants to reach almost exactly the same height and width. They will bloom at the same time, too. This uniformity makes them superb for formal settings and the wildly diverse annual bed as well!
Like most Celosia, Arrabona prefers to be direct-sown, and once it has germinated, it would rather not be moved. Sow the seed outdoors well after all danger of frost has passed, setting it just 1/8-inch deep and covering lightly. It should sprout in 5 to 7 days. Thin the plants to about 8 inches apart for dense, leaf-to-leaf coverage. They should be blooming by mid-July from a May sowing.
If you prefer to begin them indoors, here's how: Sow them at 75 to 80 degrees F, 1/8-inch deep and covered lightly. After germination, grow on at 70 degrees F, and bottom-water with lukewarm water to avoid chills. The seedlings are usually ready to transplant in just 3 weeks. When you set them outdoors, protect them from direct sun for about a week while they acclimatize.
Bred by master plantsman Dr. Zoltan Kovats at the Research Institute of Budapest, Arrabona Red is a breakthrough in color, branching, and flowering ability. We can't wait to grow it again in our trials this season, and we hope it will be a big part of your annual bed, too! Packet is 20 seeds.
Celosia Germination Information
Celosia is the botanical name for Cockscomb How to Sow Celosia: - When danger of frost is past, sow outdoors where plants are to grow
- Indoors, sow 4 weeks prior to planting outside
- Cover the seeds with 4 times their thickness in soil
- Maintain 70-75° F within the medium during germination
- Germination takes 10-15 days
- Blooms arrive 12-14 weeks after starting seeds. Sowing too early can hurt flower performance
- When sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Celosia:
Spacing: In spring, after danger of frost is past, space 6-18 inches apart in full sun in a well-drained, sandy soil rich in organic matter
Temperature: It prefers warm climates with nights above 60° F
Soil: Keep soil evenly moist and feed plants moderately
Additional Care: Celosia transplants easily, requires no staking and tolerates heat and drought. Mulch in summer to keep the roots cool and retain moisture
Appearance and Use:
This trouble-free annual, with colorful blooms for cutting or drying, is used as an edging, in borders or beds, in containers or for greenhouse growth. Plants, growing 6- 36 inches tall and 8-12 inches wide, range from stately and stiffly branched to dwarf and compact. Tiny blooms of red, orange, yellow, pink, or purple are held in combs or spikes, 11/2- 21/4 inches wide. Soft, lush green foliage is oval- to lance-shape and can have a bronze appearance
Cristata group: The inforescence is terminal, flattened, and crested, resembling the comb of a rooster
Plumosa group: The blooms are erect, tapering and feather-like
Spicata group: Slender heads of blooms
About Celosia:
Pronunciation: sel-o-se-ä âr-jen’-te-ä
Lifecycle: Annual
Origination: Amaranthaceae; native to the Tropics of Asia, Africa, and the Americas
Common Name:Cockscomb
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed. We do buy a small amount of traditional hybrid seed from Seminis, a division of Monsanto Co., but that is all we purchase from them.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.
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