Another use is in the cutting garden for stunning flowers for bouquets. Eryngium giganteum are excellent as cut flowers, lasting 10-12 days after harvest. Storing flowers in a refrigerator at 40°F after harvesting intensifies the color.
Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost'
Genus: Eryngium
Species: giganteum
Cultivar: 'Silver Ghost' ...
Giant Sea Holly (Eryngium Giganteum) - This is an excellent plant for grouping, and a picturesque object, growing from 3 to 4 feet high, with stout stems and deeply-lobed, spiny, glaucous leaves.
Miss Willmotts Ghost [English]: Eryngium giganteum
Mission Accomplished Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Mission Accomplished'
Mission Bells [English]: Fritillaria affinis
Mission Bells [English]: Fritillaria biflora ...
Sea Holly (Eryngium giganteum)
Sea Holly (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Sea Holly (Eryngium maritimum)
Sea Lavender (Limonium perezii)
Sea Lavender (Limonium latifolium)
Sea Lavender (Limonium sinuatum)
Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) ...
Planting it with a more subtle but equally attention-grabbing plant, such as 'Miss Wilmott's Ghost' (Eryngium giganteum), achieves a rather pleasing contrast of color and flower type.
 See also: Eryngium, Holly, Green, Sea Holly, Clematis
  
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