Echinops Ritro Blue Globe Thistle Seeds - 25+ Premium Southern Globethistle Flowers for Garden Planting

• Intensely blue and uniquely lovely this globe thistle is a very easy to grow plant that produces spikey, steel-blue, globe-shaped, 2" flowers that mature to bright blue, amid clumps of silvery-green foliage. even though it's called a thistle it isn't pointy or sharp anywhere.
• Blue globe thistle is a very easy to grow plant, it thrives in poor alkaline soil but adapts well to average soil.
• It is drought tolerant once established but has more flowers with moderate water. it is fast growing, long-lived (10 years or more), and not invasive.
• Deer and rabbit resistant, bees and butterflies love the blue flowers, and they make excellent cut flowers and dried flowers for crafts.

The seeds don't need any special pre-treatment. plant them in good clean potting soil, keep them at 65-70 degrees f. and they will sprout in 14-21 days. or plant outdoors in place in spring once all danger of frost has passed.
perennial
Zone: 3-8
Sun: full sun to part sun. best in full sun.
Water: regular. can withstand drought once established.
Soil: poor soil to moderately fertile, well-draining soil. no wet feet.
Height: 36"-48" tall.
Bloom time: early to late summer.
difficultly: easy plant to grow. not fussy about care or feeding.