PlantsFlowers
Globe Thistle
Echinops ritro
Zone 6a garden plant. Hardy through a Chicago winter unless the note says to pot it.
Steel-blue balls that bees cover
EasyFlowers
- Light
- Full sun
- Moisture
- Dry–medium
- Mature size
- 3–4 ft
- Spacing
- 2 ft
- Bloom or harvest
- Flowers Jul–Aug
- How it spreads
- Clump
- What to buy
- A gallon.
- When to plant
- Apr–May or Sep
In the design
Hot parkway or a south bed. The flower is a globe, good in a cut bunch and good left standing. Taproot, so don’t plan to move it every year.
