globe thistle
echinop latin

Globe thistle is easily grown from seed and will bloom the second year.

Probably another one to be considered because it will be blooming soon is the globe thistle (Echinops).

The globe thistles need to be moved, to grow in a solid mass, so they can make a unanimous statement next year in midsummer.

She has also had good luck - so far - with foxglove, globe thistle, gaillardia and salvia.

Strawflower, globe thistle, Cut on long stems and arrange statice and silver dollar.

Possibly not all thistle relatives are as easily tamed as the globe thistle.

They include echinops, the globe thistle, red bergamot and sneezewort; which centuries ago was used to make snuff.

Echinops niveus is a species in the genus Echinops or globe thistles.

Now, in any garden center, they have ornamental grasses and all sorts of minor plants like globe thistles and yarrow."

Globe thistle (Echinops Ritro), a near-relative, is much more gardener-friendly.

Cut before the stiff bracts open into individual florets, globe thistle makes a good dried flower (or more accurately, a dried-flower bud).

Yarrow, cranesbill, goldenrod, globe thistle, rose campion and Michaelmas daisies are usually in the birds' top ten of herbaceous plants.

Well, a farmer can be forgiven for mistaking my lovely patch of globe thistle for the prickly scourge of the cow pasture.

The plants chosen are gaillardia or blanket flower, echinops or globe thistle, colchicum or autumn crocus and echeveria.

Echinops exaltatus or Russian Globe Thistle is a species of globe thistle.

The best way to screen the hazel is to plant it at the far edge of the garden, behind something big and bushy like Joe Pye weed or globe thistle.

Purple and pink scabious, tiny carnations, midnight-blue dwarf delphiniums, asters, alliums, globe thistles, poppies, harebells, thrift, hardy geraniums.

The survey indicates these include cleome, four-o'clock, verbena, heliotrope, globe thistle, goatsbeard, coreopsis, verbascum, Jacob's ladder, bee balm, ajuga, lily of the valley and wisteria.

Echinops sphaerocephalus, known by the common name Great globe thistle or Pale globe-thistle, is a species of globe thistle belonging to the family Asteraceae.

Blooming now are day lilies, roses and perennials such as phlox paniculata (bright eyes), thalictrum (meadow rue), inula, crocosmia, loosestrife, purple cone flower, globe thistle, hydrangea, veronica and coreopsis.

So did globe thistles, with blue-gray thimble-shaped flowers, and tweedia, with velvety triangular gray-green leaves and little pale blue-petaled flowers on leggy stems perfect for arching down from a hand or vase.

PLANTING IDEAS For a cottage garden feel mix campanula, white lillies and aquilegias among other perennials such as globe thistles, eryngiums and Crambe cordifolia.

The tours will take in some of the more than 400 species of perennials, shrubs and trees in the gardens of Battery Park City, including seven-foot-tall meadow rue, globe thistle, lady's-mantle and angelonia.

That said, established gardeners are almost always oversupplied with artemesia, coneflower, coreopsis, daylily, filipendula, globe thistle, golden glow, iris, lady's mantle, lambs' ears, nepeta, phlox, salvia, spurge, tradescantia and yarrow.

Backyard birders attract it using feeders containing Nyjer thistle seed, or by planting grasses and perennial plants, such as zinnias, cosmos, bee balm, or globe thistle, which produce seedheads favored by finches.