echinops ritro...a very pretty thistle!

10 Aug, 2010
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this plant is a good colonizer...this spring it protected a stargazer lily's shoots from the attention of my lovely little rabbits! the lily grew up and bloomed in the arms of the echinops!

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Pip_c

Lovely, what a pretty thistle.

10 Aug, 2010

Elsiemay

i agree very pretty...

10 Aug, 2010

Freesiaperson

How interesting Lorrie... i bet it attracts lots of wildlife? As well, as keeping the Rabbits away..i keep meaning to get this wonderful looking plant,for my garden. I just, love the colour...

20 Aug, 2010

Lori

Thanks everyone! If you would like a very hardy, relatively care free plant, Fp, I would heartily recommend it. It is a self seeder and once a clump is established it will wander a little, but it's not as focussed on a takeover as feverfew is, for example. I grow it for the colour...I love a smokey blue..and it blooms at the same time as the lobelia syphilitica which is a sky blue. And for some reason the rabbits don't eat it!

20 Aug, 2010