 | | | Perennials for Sun or Part Shade: Sea holly (Eryngium)
These long flowering plants provide structure to borders and attract pollinating insects to their thistle like flowering heads. Its fragrant roots were cooked and eaten like parsnips in Tudor times. Useful cut flowers, too.
Varieties:
alpinum: white flowers, steel blue stems
bourgatii 'Graham Stuart Thomas': violet flowers, grey and white leaves
bourgatii 'Pico's Blue': dark blue flowers
eburneum: ivory flowers, sword shaped leaves
giganteum: silvery-white flowers
planum: light blue flowers
If we cannot find exactly the variety you would like in the nursery at the moment and we can find a very close alternative, we hope it is acceptable to supply it in lieu. Before we do so, however, we will ask you if you would be happy to accept a substitute.
Flowers: July - September
Soil type: Well drained
Supplier : Burncoose Nurseries
We donate half of our profit on sales of this product to The Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Please note: there is a minimum purchase of 3 of each variety and a minimum overall order size of £50.
Our nectar and pollen plants have been chosen in association with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, British Beekeepers’ Association and Butterfly Conservation, who benefit from any sales. Please also see our wildflower and grass seed mixes, which include a Bumblebee mix, Pollen and Nectar Mix and Butterfly and Moth Wildflower Mix. We sell a number of plants in this section which provide important late and early nectar and pollen, for which also see our bulbs and non-native trees.
For butterflies, although you will find some nectar plants in this section which are also food plants for caterpillars, you will find many more in wildflower plugs, wildflower seeds, and native trees and shrubs.
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