Learn how to grow Echinops (aka Globe Thistle) in your home garden. Includes info on when and where to plant echinops, in addition to proper spacing, soil amending, watering, feeding, trimming and overwintering Echinops.

Echinops, commonly known as globe thistle, is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. It gets its name from the Ancient Greek words ‘echinos’ meaning ‘hedgehog’ and ‘ops’ meaning ‘appearance’, in reference to its spiny, globe-shaped flower heads.

Echinops / ˈ ɛ k ɪ n ɒ p s / [1] is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads.

2023年11月24日 · The Echinops genus, commonly known as Globe Thistles, comprises about 120 species of flowering plants native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. These perennials are known for their spiky foliage and round, steel-blue flower heads that bloom in mid to late summer, attracting bees and butterflies.

2024年9月11日 · With its unique spiky spheres, globe thistle (Echinops spp.) looks great in a garden setting. They can also be cut for dried flower arrangements.

Find out all you need to know about growing echinops (globe thistle), in this detailed Grow Guide. Echinops or globe thistle, has spiky leaves and bristly, round flowerheads. The spiny, cobwebbed leaves provide interest from spring until the striking spherical blooms appear in late summer.

Echinops ritro is a clump-forming, 4-foot tall plant with golf ball sized blue flower heads atop stiff, rigid stems clad with deeply lobed, dark green, thistle-like foliage. Globular, thistle-like, deep steel blue flower heads (1-2” diameter) bloom at the stem tops in summer.

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.

2024年2月9日 · Globe thistle, with it's spiked spherical blue or violet flower heads, is a great addition to any garden. It's botanical name, Echinops ritro, is a testament to the plant's spiky appearance and rustic charm. Learn how to grow Globe thistle, and add this unique thistle-like flower to your garden.

2023年7月5日 · The blue or white spherical flower heads of Echinops can bring a sense of the Mediterranean to a garden. Also known as ‘Globe Thistles’, these are plants that can fit in alongside many other Mediterranean plants in a sun-kissed part of a garden.