glowing celosia

I rather like how the celosia patch looks around my mailbox, right now. Turns out the height is just right- they have gotten large enough the blooms are impressive now, but aren't so big to fall over easily when the ground is soft after rain. Most of them have this fan shape with the wildly ruffled top edge:

But there is one individual plant that has tightly crinkled globe-shaped blooms (like pictured on my seed packet).

And in the planter box where I replaced cilantro with celosia seedlings- they are puny and thin, but bright and pretty regardless.