Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost'
giant sea holly
- Position: full sun
- Soil: dry, well-drained, poor to moderately fertile soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: June and August
- Flower colour: steel-blue flowers surrounds by silvery white bracts
- Other features: ideal for use in dried flower arrangements
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Teasel-like pale green flowers, which turn to steely-blue as they mature. are surrounded a ruff of silvery white bracts. This rosette-forming biennial is great for the front or middle of a sunny, well-drained border. The attractive foliage is displayed to best advantage if the plant is mulched with or planted in gravel. A biennial plant, it will die after flowering in its second year, but self-seeds freely in a good spot, thus ensuring more will follow. - Garden care: Lift and divide large colonies in spring. Avoid the temptation to cut back the flowerheads in autumn as they provide interest in the winter garden.
Astelia chathamica 'Silver Spear'
silver spear
Dramatic, silvery, spear-shaped leaves
£17.99
2 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet'
lamb's ears
Grown for its beautiful silver foliage
£8.99
2 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Perovskia 'Blue Spire'
Russian sage
Violet-blue flowers and silvery foliage. Great planted en masse
£9.99
1.5 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
spurge
Handsome tall evergreen with chartreuse flowers in spring
£8.99
2 litre pot
available to order from autumn 2013
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