 Eryngium bourgatii $7.95
- common names: seaholly
- flowering season: summer
- height: 12 to 15 inches
- Light requirements: sun
- Soil requirements: average
- Water requirments: average
- Growth habit: grows as a clump
- How to propagate: seeds, root cuttings
- Leaf type: fingered leaves of green with white veins
- Ways to use it: mixes well with other flowering perennials; grow a few plants in the vegetable garden for harvesting the everlasting flowers
- Special characteristics: bees are particularly attracted to the flowers
The green leaves have broad silvery-white veins running through them. Prickly flowers come in summer on steely blue stems of twelve inches. These flowers are a magnet to bees. And they dry well when cut for flower arranging. A plant will develop a taproot, making it very drought tolerant. Any plant that we send out should be watered regularly through summer the first year in your garden. It needs time to grow a taproot. As it grows larger you can back off from watering. Because of the taproot, digging and dividing this sea holly is not as easy as other perennials. Other ways to propagate it are by collecting and sowing its seeds and by root cuttings. Hardy in USDA Zones 5 - 9. |
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