Echinops ritro Veitch's Blue

Commonlu called 'Globe Thistle' this is a spectacular, award-winning structural perennial highly coveted for its architectural silhouette and uniquely geometric blossoms. It produces perfectly spherical, golf-ball-sized flower heads packed with metallic, intense steel-blue florets that sit on top of rigid, silvery-grey stems. Jagged, thistle-like leaves have felted white undersides, this plant adds dramatic texture, vertical accent, and cooling tones to sunny borders, gravel gardens or wildlife-focused spaces. The dried flower globes retain their perfect spherical structure all through autumn and winter, catching frost beautifully and providing a dramatic, sculptural silhouette in the bare winter garden, they also make beautiful dried flowers, retaining their stricking blue colour.