Jun 11, 2020
Plant of the Day
Thursday 11 June 2020
The sculptural flowers of Eryngium giganteum (Miss Willmott's ghost, tall eryngo) have cone-like umbels of tiny blue flowers sitting within a rosette of spiny silvery-grey bracts. This biennial or short-lived perennial self-seeds freely and is ideal for a dry, sunny location. The common name, Miss Willmott's ghost, comes from the tale that the nineteenth-century gardener, Ellen Wilmott, who liked to secretly scatter the seeds of this plant in other people's gardens.
Jill Raggett