Everyone looks for flowers that can endure a long summer of intense heat and sparse rainfall and this is precisely where the new Audray series of gomphrena fits into your garden.
Known botanically as Gomphrena globosa, this Joseph's Coat relative is native to Panama and Guatemala. The Audray series comes in two colours, Purple Red and Bicolour Rose.
Audray comes from Takii seed which is an important player in the world of cut flowers. Reaching about 60 centimetres in full sun, it will indeed supply a bountiful supply of cuts for the vase. They can also be hung upside down to dry and then used in a vase as an everlasting.
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