This year I decided to grow some Sea Holly. I have seen the blossoms on stalks as part of dried arrangements. I thought it was a tropical plant and some culltivars are. The one I have is Eryngium amethystinum and is the hardiest species. It can be referred to as puryngium amethystinum, the amethyst eryngo, Italian eryngoor amethyst sea holly. It is a clump-forming, perennial, tap-rooted herb. Its stem is 30 to 50 cm long. Because I only had one plant with 2 stalks I needed to support with a stake. It is light blue to purple in colour. It has a basal circle of obovate, pinnate, spiny, leathery, mid-green leaves. Remind you of some thintles. It flowers in mid to late summer with cylindrical umbels, 2-3 cm long atop silvery blue bracts and branching stems. The plant is native to the eastern Mediterranean and prefers dry places and soils that are rich in calcium. It can grow in zones 2-10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_amethystinum The image on the left is closer to the real color which was taken lateafternoon with iPhone 6. The image on the right I used the native iPhone 6 app with changing the tint more blue and then using flourescent filter to get the color I liked as an altered image. I did use a black vignette Resized for blog posting.. Minimal post processing done in PSE 11.
This year I decided to grow some Sea Holly. I have seen the blossoms on stalks as part of dried arrangements. I thought it was a tropical plant and some culltivars are. The one I have is Eryngium amethystinum and is the hardiest species. It can be referred to as puryngium amethystinum, the amethyst eryngo, Italian eryngoor amethyst sea holly. It is a clump-forming, perennial, tap-rooted herb. Its stem is 30 to 50 cm long. Because I only had one plant with 2 stalks I needed to support with a stake. It is light blue to purple in colour. It has a basal circle of obovate, pinnate, spiny, leathery, mid-green leaves. Remind you of some thintles. It flowers in mid to late summer with cylindrical umbels, 2-3 cm long atop silvery blue bracts and branching stems. The plant is native to the eastern Mediterranean and prefers dry places and soils that are rich in calcium. It can grow in zones 2-10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_amethystinum The image on the left is closer to the real color which was taken lateafternoon with iPhone 6. The image on the right I used the native iPhone 6 app with changing the tint more blue and then using flourescent filter to get the color I liked as an altered image. I did use a black vignette Resized for blog posting.. Minimal post processing done in PSE 11. 
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