Eryngium - sea holly

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Sea holly brings out the heart-eyes emoji for this writer - that metallic purple-bue colour, the artchitectural branching, the intricate spikiness, the flowers like a space-age raspberry! Love it.

If you're looking for something frost hardy, drought tolerant, fast-growing, cruisy to care for, pollinator-friendly, dramatically blue - yet perfectly at home in a cottage garden border, you can't go past sea holly.

Fun fact, back in Shakespeare's day they would candy the roots (like angelica or cherry) and eat them as lollies.

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Description

Eryngium planum - sea holly

APPEARANCE : Open branching deciduous perennial; silvery holly-like leaves and thistle-like stems, blue flowerheads like raspberries surrounded by a lacy ruff appear in late spring into summer, persisting dried into autumn.
USE FOR : Mixed beds and borders, cottage and prairie style gardens, pollinator attracting. Makes a good cut flower for the home.
PLANTING: Plant in full sun into free draining soil. Will grow in moist soils if they dry out in winter - this hates winter wet at the roots. Mulch and water on a regular basis, until the plant is established, usually around 12 weeks. Very cold hardy, and drought tolerant once mature.
CARE: Plants flower better when they have been in place a year or two.
HEIGHT & WIDTH: 50 cm H x 50 cm W.
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.
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