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 ...

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.

Growing to only 3-4' tall and wide, Blue Puffball is a perfect ball-shaped plant with deep blue, fragrant flowers from June through September. Vitex Summertime Blues is another variety which will ...

The blue flowers fill with nectar at an astonishing rate, replenishing their stores much faster than many other flowering plants. In my garden, borage self-seeds readily, returning each year.

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).

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 ...