Burning Embers Celosia
Growing Burning Embers Celosia
‘Burning Embers’ is an award-winning celosia and 2024 All-America Selections Winner prized for its dramatic foliage, vivid flower color, and exceptional garden performance. Bronze leaves highlighted with dark pink veining provide a striking backdrop for vibrant pink plumes, while strong branching and vigorous growth help plants produce an abundance of long-lasting flowers.
Start ‘Burning Embers’ indoors for transplanting or sow directly where conditions allow. Surface sow the seeds, pressing them lightly into the soil, and space plants 10 to 12 inches apart. Grow in full sun. Its compact growth makes this variety especially well suited to containers and smaller gardens.
Ready to bloom in about 90 days, enjoy the flowers as they open and reach their best display stage. Plants offer an extended flowering window, producing colorful plumes from summer into fall.
Bold, vigorous, and long blooming, ‘Burning Embers’ is an excellent choice for containers, beds, borders, mass plantings, cut flower gardens, ornamental displays, and pollinator-friendly plantings.
- Days to Bloom: 70–90 Days
- Sow Method: Start Indoors or Direct Sow
- Sowing Depth: Surface Sow (Press Lightly)
- Plant Spacing: 10–12 Inches
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
- Plant Height: 8-10 Inches
- Flower Color: Vibrant Pink Plumes
- Foliage Color: Bronze With Dark Pink Veins
- Bloom Size: 3–5 Inches
- Growth Habit: Upright, Well-Branched
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Best Uses: Containers, Bedding, Borders, Mass Plantings
- Hardiness Zones: Grown as Annual in Zones 3–10
Catalog Page: 67
Start Indoors or Direct Sow
Surface Sow (Press Lightly)
8-10 Inches
Celosia plumosa