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Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' - Globe Thistle - Asteraceae (The Aster/Daisy Family)
Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' - Globe Thistle - Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' is a globe thistle with thistle-like leaves, silver stems and blue spheres of starry flowers.
Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' - Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' is a globe thistle with thistle-like leaves, silver stems and blue spheres of starry flowers.
 
11cm/15cm
Price: $19.99
Zone Hardiness: 3-8
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2-4'
Width: 12-24"
Flower Colour: Blue


Availability: Shipping begins in May/June when plants are ready.
Product Code: 2553
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Description Fine Print
 
Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' is a stunning architectural perennial that offers deeply divided basal, thistle-like leaves off of silvery stems topped with dramatic lavender-blue spheres of starry flowers characteristic of this genus. Will pop in the mixed border with Phlox, Monarda and ornamental grasses for dramatic appeal. Also great in the rock garden and the vase. Huge bee attractor.
Details
  • Class: Deciduous
  • Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
  • Flowering Time: Summer
  • Fragrant: No
  • Foliage Colour: Silver
  • Deer Resistant: Unknown
  • Attracts: Bees
  • Habitat: Open sandy steppes.
  • Geographical Origin: Asia and the Pacific - North Central and Eastern Asia, Asia and the Pacific - Southwest Asia and Asia Minor, Asia and the Pacific - Asia - China and Japan, Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia
  • BC Native: No


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