Category / Echinops / Globe Thistles

Adding outstanding contrast, interest, and color to the summer garden while being trouble-free and low maintenance, Echinops (Globe Thistle) makes an invaluable contribution to the landscape. Blooming from mid-summer to early fall,…

Echinops bannaticus ‘Blue Glow’ (Globe Thistle) is a robust, upright herbaceous perennial with intense blue, perfectly round flowers, 1.5 in. across (4 cm), at the end of gracefully curving, unbranched stems. Blooming…

Nicely branched, Echinops bannaticus ‘Star Frost’ (Globe Thistle) is a robust, upright, herbaceous perennial with a profusion of golf-ball sized, silvery-white flowers at the end of gracefully curving, silvery-white stems. Blooming from…

Robust, Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ is a unique and appealing Globe Thistle with deeply cut foliage of prickly dark green leaves, downy and white underneath. From mid-summer to early fall, it produces…

Considered by most growers as the loveliest Globe Thistle, Echinops ritro ‘Veitch’s Blue’ is an excellent rebloomer that produces abundant, dark violet-blue flowers at the end of gracefully curving, branched, silvery stems.…

Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus (Small Globe Thistle) is an erect herbaceous perennial boasting bright blue, globe-shaped flowers, 2.5 in. across (6 cm) at the end of sturdy, multi-branching, silvery-white stems. Blooming from…

Strongly branched, Echinops sphaerocephalus ‘Arctic Glow’ (Great Globe Thistle) is a vigorous perennial with a profusion of golf-ball sized, densely packed with white, starry flowers. Blooming from mid to late summer, they…