AAS Winner
When Fresh Look Red walked off with a Gold Medal from the All-America Selection Committee, we knew a whole new day had dawned for Wheat Celosia in American gardens. Simply the finest Wheat Celosia ever grown, the Fresh Look series offers so many advantages over older varieties it might as well be a new species. You'll get larger, brighter blooms and many more of them from well-branched plants; a super-long season of bloom; and a terrific adaptability to just about any climate and soil. Start designing your sunny beds and borders around this miraculous new Wheat Celosia today using this economical mix of all 4 colors: red, yellow, gold, and orange.
Even if it hadn't won top honors, Fresh Look would be a standout based on how it performed in our trial gardens this year. Not only did it outlast every other celosia (by weeks, not days), but the individual blooms are much more eye-catching than others. The colors are vivid, and the flowerstems reach up to 10 inches high on neat little plants just 12 to 16 inches tall and wide. Best of all from my point of view, Fresh Look never needs deadheading. New blooms and leaves spring up all around the old ones, keeping this plant looking as fresh in its third month of bloom as it did in its third week.
The flowers are awe-inspiring, but the vigor and adaptability of this celosia really make it a sure bet in just about any garden. It needs full sun and appreciates good garden soil, but once it gets going, Fresh Look isn't about to be slowed down by heat, drought, or pests. It takes off with strong lateral branches that keep the blooms coming all summer long, and needs very little attention from you.
Be sure to consider AAS-winning Fresh Look Yellow and Red, as well as new Gold. They make fine combinations in the sunny annual bed or large containers. There is even an economical collection of all 4 separate colors, so you can design formal patterns in the garden. With these giant spires of brilliant color, you really can't go wrong.
Start this seed indoors in late winter, about 8 to 10 weeks before last anticipated frost. The seed germinates in about 10 days and will begin blooming about 70 to 100 days after sowing.
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
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
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
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
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.
AAS Winner
When Fresh Look Red walked off with a Gold Medal from the All-America Selection Committee, we knew a whole new day had dawned for Wheat Celosia in American gardens. Simply the finest Wheat Celosia ever grown, the Fresh Look series offers so many advantages over older varieties it might as well be a new species. You'll get larger, brighter blooms and many more of them from well-branched plants; a super-long season of bloom; and a terrific adaptability to just about any climate and soil. Start designing your sunny beds and borders around this miraculous new Wheat Celosia today using this economical mix of all 4 colors: red, yellow, gold, and orange.
Even if it hadn't won top honors, Fresh Look would be a standout based on how it performed in our trial gardens this year. Not only did it outlast every other celosia (by weeks, not days), but the individual blooms are much more eye-catching than others. The colors are vivid, and the flowerstems reach up to 10 inches high on neat little plants just 12 to 16 inches tall and wide. Best of all from my point of view, Fresh Look never needs deadheading. New blooms and leaves spring up all around the old ones, keeping this plant looking as fresh in its third month of bloom as it did in its third week.
The flowers are awe-inspiring, but the vigor and adaptability of this celosia really make it a sure bet in just about any garden. It needs full sun and appreciates good garden soil, but once it gets going, Fresh Look isn't about to be slowed down by heat, drought, or pests. It takes off with strong lateral branches that keep the blooms coming all summer long, and needs very little attention from you.
Be sure to consider AAS-winning Fresh Look Yellow and Red, as well as new Gold. They make fine combinations in the sunny annual bed or large containers. There is even an economical collection of all 4 separate colors, so you can design formal patterns in the garden. With these giant spires of brilliant color, you really can't go wrong.
Start this seed indoors in late winter, about 8 to 10 weeks before last anticipated frost. The seed germinates in about 10 days and will begin blooming about 70 to 100 days after sowing.
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
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
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
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
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.