Echinops (Globe Thistle)

Globe Thistles are ornamental perennials and best grown as solitary plants in the garden border. They make umbels of intense bluish shades above spiny and dissected leaves in dark-green to silvery they make umbels of intense bluish shades. Very easy and showy. For any rich, well drained soil in full sun.
Sow preferably from autumn to spring in any well drained soil in a sunny spot. Good for dried flower arrangement, and seeds are an excellent nutrition source for wild birds.
All are USDA Climate Zone 6.
20 seeds per package if not stated differently.

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Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus

Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus

60 (90)cm, subspecies with finely cut, slivery green foliage and numerous, small, blue, flowers globes. For full sun to partial shade in any rich, well drained soil. VII-VIII.

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Echinops spec. "Lebanon"

80cm, annual to semiperennial, unidentified species from the Lebanon (Jadra/Jiyé, some 12 km S of Beyrouth), growing in rocky, sunny spots. Makes ornamental silvery-grey, strongly dissected foliage and beautiful, quite large, sky blue flower balls. For a rocky soil in a protected spot in full sun. 10 seeds per package. VI-VII.

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Echinops sphaerocephalus

Echinops sphaerocephalus

100 (130)cm, noble plant for sunny spots with dark green leaves, gray beneath, and large global bluish-grey flower heads. VI-VIII.

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Echinops spinosissima

Echinops spinosissima

2 (4)m, a biannual species with a tall branching, spiny stem crowned by ice-blue flower balls. Native of rocky, sun-exposed sites in mountains in the eastern Mediterranean . For any rich, very well drained soil in full sun. VII-VIII.

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