Eryngium ovinum - Blue Devil - 20 seeds

Metallic Blue globular and spiky flowers in Summer, makes quite the statement!
 
This awesome Australian native is a relatively long lived, herbaceous, clumping perennial growing 0.4m - 0.7m tall and wide that dies down in Autumn to emerge in late Winter to flower in the Summer.
 
This species produces a rosette of narrow, spiny divided leaves to 45cm long having a waxy bluish grey appearance and in mid Summer, strongly ribbed flowering stems up to 60cm long hold a mass of crowded metallic blue flowers. These flowers have long spiky bracts to 2.5cm long in ovoid to globular, thistle like heads on rigid branched stems, the terminal flower heads open first, then the next open underneath and so on, each flower lasting for several weeks and creates a real feature in the garden!
 
Full sun is essential for this species and tolerates most soils as long as they are well drained and is frost hardy.
 
This is a species that is becoming uncommon in some areas through its native habitat depletion of temperate woodlands and grasslands, so why not get your own seeds to grow this species yourself!
 
This listing is for 50 premium quality seeds shipped on receipt of cleared funds.