Echinops
How to Propagate
and Grow Successfully

Echinops originate from South Eastern Europe and are a genus of clump forming perennial gardening plants.

Leaves are greyish green on top and creamy grey underneath, they are oval or oblong and spiny.

Flowers are bluish grey or whitish and are a spherical globe shape, they are solitary with spikes and are borne on the end of tall upright stems.

These gardening plants when grown as part of a mixed planting scheme will add contrasting colours, texture and form to your garden.

Essential info

Genus: Echinops

Family: Asteraceae/Compositae

Species: Ritro

Common Names: Globe thistle, small globe.

Classification: Perennial.

Height: 60cm (24inches).

Flowering: From summer through to autumn.

Where to plant info

These gardening plants are a must in your garden. Grow them in groups or in drifts in your beds and borders. They mix extremely well with other bedding and border plants.

Where: Ideal for general borders.

Echinops make an ideal dried cut flower.

Site: They prefer full sun, they thrive in it!

Soil: Any poor condition and well draining soil.

Propagation info By seed in spring.

Best germination temperature: 70 deg F.

Time from sowing to germination: 5 - 14 days.

How to sow seeds….. read more

Or propagate by division in spring or autumn.

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