Eryngium venustum
“Mexican Sea Holly”

Perhaps you need something strange & otherworldly for your low water garden? Well, look no further than this petite Mexican perennial with spacey, spikey leaves & starry silver thistle-like flowers. It is a prickly plant, but attractively so & we don't need all of our plants to be softly pretty, do we? Leaves are very boldly serrated & make a striking pattern even before the flowering stems arise. It's super easy to grow & very tough, needing very little water & surviving in hot, hot sun. It even reseeds a tad, so you'll get a few free plants down the road! To 2' high & a bit more than 1' wide.

Claire Woods
Propagator