Eryngoes, also called sea hollies, are perennial plants, occasionally annuals, with distinctive, bristly flower heads.They flower heads look more like thistles than carrots and come mainly in ...

"In my garden, sea holly's bright blue flowers are always full of bumble bees, native bees, and beneficial wasps," Elizabeth says. "It looks similar to a thistle, and I like the cut flowers for ...

Thistle do nicely! These purple plants will add dramatic beauty to any garden. By MONTY DON FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 17:30 EDT, 26 June 2009 ...

It bears beautiful, globe-shaped, thistle-like flowers. Plant this perennial in early May, as soon as we are frost-free, and you will be cutting flowers to make bouquets in the house until late fall.

Our Mystery Plant (Tall thistle, Cirsium altissimum) is a thistle, and I was able to enter a patch of this stuff on a recent field trip in the upstate of South Carolina.Spiny stuff! It is, in fact ...

ONE OF my favourite Sunday treats is homemade cake in the sheltered, south-facing walled garden of Smeaton Nursery Gardens, in East Linton (www.smeatonnurserygardens.co.uk).

To read more about this plant and control options visit: go.osu.edu/canadathistle. Q: The lower branches of a beautiful Colorado blue spruce in our front yard have died over the past two seasons.

A recent addition to the garland, this perennial, normally grown as an annual, has woolly leaves and winged stems. From June to September it produces clusters of everlasting silvery-white flowers ...