Echinops

Great shot there!

Lovely, I really must grow these

They thrive on neglect Denise ! (by the way, did you get my PM ? )

This is a lovely pic Louise :o)

Yes Louise thank -you, I did think I had replied straight away apologies if I didnt.

I've had nothing back from you Denise so i wondered if i hadn't press send !

A lovely photo Louise .Mine have yet to open yet. I also have to keep an eye on them because can suffer with bad mildew.

I have just replied to you Louise.

Snap......love it.

Rose, never once have these suffered with mildew and there are several different perennials here that do, badly, so i'm quite surprised that they do there.

Our garden Louise doesn't get constant sunshine. We are surrounded by beech trees and scots pine and there isn't a single border that has more than 3 hours of sunshine, but up to now this year they are ok. fingers crossed.

Oh, i see, that could be a difficult area to garden then.

I'd have the area covered in Epimediums if i had your type of garden.