Among the most attractive in the garden are the eryngoes - or Eryngium. Eryngoes, also called sea hollies, are perennial plants, occasionally annuals, with distinctive, bristly flower heads.

The plant blooms from early summer to early fall with the most profuse number of flowers in mid-summer. With a long tap root (it’s a member of the carrot family!), it’s drought-tolerant and ...

Bright orange Californian poppies, bronze umbels of burpleurum, silvery blues of eryngium and hints of white libertia are used to contrast with the textural foliage, spiky leaves, dried flower and ...