10 Giant SILVER SEA HOLLY Eryngium Giganteum Miss Willmott’s Ghost Flower Seeds

Description:
Name: Silver Sea Holly
Other common names: Giant Sea Holly, Miss Willmott’s Ghost, Tall Eryngo
Scientific name: Eryngium Giganteum
Color: Pale silvery green – Blue
Plant seeds: Summer – Fall Sow – Cold Stratify
Bloom time: Summer (June – Aug in the N Hemisphere)
Hardiness zone: 4 – 8
Plant height: 36 – 42″
Plant spacing: 18 – 24″
Light requirements: Sun
Soil & water preferences: Average – Dry
Quantity: 10 Seeds

Silver Sea Holly features conical flowers that start out green and bloom in unique steel blue shades. They are surrounded by thistle-like silvery white bracts that are quite striking and luminous in the garden. The flower heads are showy, measuring up to 4 – 6” wide, and they attract bees and butterflies. These flowers stand above an evergreen basal rosette mound of heart-shaped leaves. Silver Sea Holly has a long bloom season and makes an excellent dried flower, either left in the garden for winter interest or cut for dried floral arrangements. This plant is deer and rabbit resistant, and can tolerate poor soil, drought, and coastal conditions. It is a biennial, blooming in the second year from seed, and although the parent plants do not return after blooming, they reseed themselves, allowing new generations to flourish in subsequent years. This plant has received a Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.