Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost'

giant sea holly

size: 2 litre pot

available to order from summer 2012

£9.99

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• Position: full sun
• Soil: dry, well-drained, poor to moderately fertile soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June and August
• Flower colour: steel-blue flowers surrounds by silvery white bracts
• Other features: ideal for use in dried flower arrangements
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  Teasel-like pale green flowers, which turn to steely-blue as they mature. are surrounded a ruff of silvery white bracts. This rosette-forming biennial is great for the front or middle of a sunny, well-drained border. The attractive foliage is displayed to best advantage if the plant is mulched with or planted in gravel. A biennial plant, it will die after flowering in its second year, but self-seeds freely in a good spot, thus ensuring more will follow.
  
  
• Garden care: Lift and divide large colonies in spring. Avoid the temptation to cut back the flowerheads in autumn as they provide interest in the winter garden.
  
  
  • Eventual Height: 0.6m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.3m
  Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost' - giant sea holly Stunning silvery white bracts