ornamental thistles

cirsium rivulare
kailzie gardens 2~6~06

 

They are lovely Greenwizard, and they flower for six months of the year with me.

 

Great pictures!
I have a silybum comes to see me from time to time - I got one originaly from a car boot sale. Last Saturday I bought Galactites tormentosa - a kind of refined version of silybum but much more interesting, anyway I have great hopes for it.

 

Very pretty!!!! My youngest calls them Fireworks Flowers!!

 

Nice - reminds me of the Fantasia :D

 

very sweet.......i love it when weans have their own special names for flowers

 

HB, try this Allium, then!


Allium Schubertii

 

i've tried to grow them in the past without any success......purple sensation i'm an expert

 

Oh Fran, I remember fantasia too - I made the mistake though of reviewing it again when I grew up (if I could ever be considered to have done do)

 

Its part of my video collection, along with Fantasia 2. I rewatch both on occasions with much pleasure.

My favourite piece, the Pastoral - unicorns, matchmaking cherubs, a drunken baccus, - and then of course there was Thor, kicking his sandals off and rolling himself in the thunder cloud, removing the errant thunderbold that disturbed his sleep.

 

I grew this one from a packet of Unwins seeds then forgot what it was called,very imposing it was so I took the picture

 

Liz - love the allium!!!! Whats it called ? - I think this is another plant for the list!!!

 

Yes thats the bit I liked, the unicorns, but it was the Beethoven symphoony that attracted me to it and when I listened to it again I cringed at what they did to it - just a musicians thing I think.

Lovely picture June.

 

Centaurea macrocephala~globe knapweed is the big yellow thistles name r
it grows in my garden & the bees adore it