Green Thumb | This plant needs little love

Updated June 12 2018 - 6:35pm, first published 3:41pm
UNUSUAL: Next to the horticulture classrooms at Wodonga TAFE, this Love Lies Bleeding is in full flower in a raised garden bed.​ The plant loves sunny spots but can thrive in poor, well-drained soils.
UNUSUAL: Next to the horticulture classrooms at Wodonga TAFE, this Love Lies Bleeding is in full flower in a raised garden bed.​ The plant loves sunny spots but can thrive in poor, well-drained soils.

This unusual eye-catching and extremely ornamental annual plant with the botanical name Amaranthus caudatus, goes by the strange common name Love Lies Bleeding. 

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