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Onopordum Acanthium
£2.55per packet
Buy 2, get a 3rd free
This is truly one of the most impressive plants you can grow in the UK if you can give it room. Candelabras of large mauve flowers open on much-branching white woolly stems which arise from a huge grey spiky rosette in spring.
- Common name
- Scotch Thistle, Giant Cotton Thistle
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Packet content
- 25 seeds
- Height
- 1.8 m - 2.7 m
- Light level
- Full Sun
- Growth habit
- Biennial
- Hardiness rating
- H5
- Pollinator-friendly
- Yes
- Moisture
- Free draining
- Region of origin
- Europe
- Colour
- Purple
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