Flowering now is a new eryngium for us, the South American Eryngium elegans. Our plant comes from a Mark Weathington collection in Uruguay. Despite only being in our trials for a year and a half, we are quite smitten. The amazing, 7′ tall branched flower spike towers above the basal rosette of foliage. We’ll need
If you’re tired of failing with those short-lived European eryngiums that look so good in gardening magazines, look no further. Looking absolutely dazzling for the last few weeks is the extraordinary Southeast (SC to Florida) native perennial, Eryngium ravenelii. This amazing plant, which is still virtually unknown in gardens, is found naturally in flooded ditches
Late summer/early fall is show season for Eryngium aquaticum var. ravenelii…a superb southeast native plant that’s almost unknown by native plant enthusiasts. In the wild, it grows in seasonally flooded ditches, but in the garden at JLBG, our plants thrive in typical garden soil with an average amount of moisture. Here are our plants flowering
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