(Hybrid Storksbill)

Lovely in rock gardens and stone wall crevices, Bishop's Form hybrid storksbill shines in early summer when it becomes covered with small cupped blooms of rosy fuchsia-pink. It is a low, mounding but spreading evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial, a hybrid formed by the cross of Erodium corsicum and Erodium reichardii, both natives of Mediterranean isles.

Small, oval, green leaves with a hint of gray cover this plant all season. They have scalloped edges or lobes and a slight...

(Flore Pleno Hybrid Storksbill, Hybrid Storksbill)

At home in rock gardens and stone wall crevices, hybrid storksbill shines in early summer when it becomes covered with small cupped blooms that are deep red with maroon veins. It is a low, mounding but spreading evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial, a hybrid formed by the cross of Erodium corsicum and Erodium reichardii, both natives of Mediterranean isles.

Small, oval, green leaves with a hint of gray cover this plant all season. They have scalloped edges or lobes and a slight...

(Rocketsalad)

Long cultivated for its piquant leaves, arugula is a cool-season annual from the Mediterranean region. In spring and early summer it produces upright rosettes of lobed oblong leaves that make a sophisticated and zesty addition to salads. Later in the season it sends up a tall central stem topped with clusters of creamy-white flowers that are also edible. Plants will reseed unless flower stems are promptly removed. The variety sativa is the form usually grown.

Sow arugula as soon as the...

(Arugula, Garden Rocket, Jamba, Rocketsalad)

Long cultivated for its piquant leaves, arugula is a cool-season annual from the Mediterranean region. In spring and early summer it produces upright rosettes of lobed oblong leaves that make a sophisticated and zesty addition to salads. Later in the season it sends up a tall central stem topped with clusters of creamy-white flowers that are also edible. Plants will reseed unless flower stems are promptly removed. The variety sativa is the form usually grown.

Sow arugula as soon as the...

(Sapphire Blue Seaholly, Seaholly)

This Blooms of Bressingham seaholly introduction offers lots of spiny flowers of bright, silvery lavender blue in summer. This hardy herbaceous perennial is a cross between Eryngium bourgatii and Eryngium alpinum. It forms a dense basal rosette of course blue-gray leaves and produces upright, branched stems covered with conical thistle-like flowers surrounded by colorful, spiny bracts. The flowers are attractive to many pollinators including butterflies

Sapphire Blue seaholly...

(Alpine Seaholly)

Thistle-like leaves and steel blue stems and flowers makes the alpine seaholly a favorite perennial for gravelly gardens. Eryngium alpinum is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to dry rocky mountain slopes of southeastern Europe, including the Alps. It has a dense basal rosette of heart-shaped, course, spiny dark green leaves. In summer it produces plume-like flowers with a barreled cluster of fertile, tiny white or blue flowers surrounded by many spiny bracts (modified leaves) of silvery...

(Alpine Seaholly)

Thistle-like leaves and steel blue stems and flowers makes the alpine seaholly a favorite perennial for gravelly gardens. Eryngium alpinum is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to dry rocky mountain slopes of southeastern Europe, including the Alps. Selection 'Superbum' is particularly vigorous in growth and form and has a dense basal rosette of heart-shaped, course, spiny dark green leaves. In summer it produces plume-like flowers with a barreled cluster of fertile, tiny white or blue...

(Pyrennes Seaholly)

Thistle-like leaves of green and silver, gray-violet stems and silvery blue flowers makes Pyrennes seaholly a refined perennial for gravelly gardens. Eryngium bourgatii is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to dry rocky mountain slopes of the Pyrennes in Spain. It has a basal rosette of rounded, lobed, coarse, spiny dark green leaves with silvery white veins. In summer it produces plume-like flowers with a rounded cluster of fertile, tiny gray-green or blue flowers surrounded by many spiny...

(Miss Willmott's Ghost, Seaholly)

Thistle-like leaves and blue flowers with starry collars of silvery green makes Mrs. Willmott's ghost, or seaholly a favorite perennial for sunny gardens. Eryngium giganteum is a hardy herbaceous biennial native to the moist, well-drained soils of Iran and the Caucasus of extreme westcentral Asia. It has a dense basal rosette of heart-shaped, coarse, spiny and teethed green leaves iwth white edges and veins. In summer it produces starry flowers with a barreled cluster of fertile, tiny blue...

(Leavenworth's Eryngo, Texas Seaholly)

Pineapple-like flowers that blush from green to rich violet-purple in very late summer makes Leavenworth eryngo one of America's most vibrant dryland wildflowers. Eryngium leavenworthii is an annual native to dry prairie soils across Texas and into Oklahoma and Arkansas. The plant has a basal rosette of oblong, coarse, spiny-lobed green leaves. In midsummer it produces pineapple-like flowers with a barreled cluster of green buds with a tuft of spiny leaves atop a tall branching stem. By...