Hi all,

I got some love-lies-bleeding back in late spring that, because we were moving in early summer, I just planted in pots for about a month. They weren't crazy about the pots, and never took off. When we reached our new house I put them in the ground, and they did okay, surviving for a bit, but then seemed to fizzle out. The original flower "tails" looked like they'd dried, possibly after having set seed.

A couple of weeks later I noticed that the plants had reinvigorated themselves, and were branching out and putting out new blooms. However, of more interest to me was that right beside them (RIGHT beside them), and nowhere else in the garden, I was starting to see Amaranthus-like plants beginning to come up. They have pink bases to the stems (green further up), and pink edging to the leaves and the wounds/holes in the leaves.

Will love-lies-bleeding grow from seed set within the same summer? I wouldn't have expected any self-sown plants till next spring. Or could these be a wild Amaranthus, eg Green Pigweed, that just coincidentally came up beside my love-lies-bleeding when I hadn't weeded for a bit?

Thanks for your help!