Or something else-ium? I didn’t plant this but there is a clump of eryngium about 10 yards away and only planted last season. It’s about 3’ tall. Thanks for any help. Whatever it is it’s probably going once it stops raining.
I grow eryngium in pots... and have noticed in the last few weeks that I now have several thistles like in your photograph, growing near to the pot. I have never had thistles before in the garden. Just a strange coincidence?
Me three, do you remember what kind? With perennial, annual, and biennial it could be. They grow from bits of roots, or with a biennial you could have turned the soil and its germinated and you missed it last year and its romped away this.
I grew echinops in my last garden and they self_seeded freely. Have to be careful as the flowers of the offspring are usually a paler, more grey tone of blue than the original. Bees and ther pollinators still love them tho.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
With perennial, annual, and biennial it could be.
They grow from bits of roots, or with a biennial you could have turned the soil and its germinated and you missed it last year and its romped away this.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw