{"product_id":"echinops-ritro-seeds-globe-thistle","title":"Echinops ritro Seeds - Globe Thistle","description":"\u003cp\u003eType: Herbaceous perennial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFamily: Asteraceae\u003cbr\u003e Native Range: Central and eastern Europe, Asia\u003cbr\u003e Zone: 3 to 8\u003cbr\u003e Height: 3.00 to 4.00 feet\u003cbr\u003e Spread: 2.00 to 2.50 feet\u003cbr\u003e Bloom Time: July to September\u003cbr\u003e Bloom Description: Blue\u003cbr\u003e Sun: Full sun\u003cbr\u003e Water: Dry to medium\u003cbr\u003e Maintenance: Low\u003cbr\u003e Flower: Showy, Good Cut, Good Dried\u003cbr\u003e Attracts: Butterflies\u003cbr\u003e Tolerate: Rabbit, Drought, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil\u003cbr\u003e Garden locations\u003cbr\u003e Culture\u003cbr\u003e Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Tolerates a wide range of soils, including poor, infertile, dry ones, as long as well-drained. Avoid rich soils. This is a taprooted plant that is difficult to divide or transplant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoteworthy Characteristics\u003cbr\u003e Echinops ritro is a clump-forming, 4-foot tall plant with golf ball sized blue flower heads atop stiff, rigid stems clad with deeply lobed, dark green, thistle-like foliage. Globular, thistle-like, deep steel blue flower heads (1-2” diameter) bloom at the stem tops in summer. Coarse, spiny, deeply-dissected, gray-green leaves are white tomentose beneath. Basal leaves grow to 6-8” long, but stem leaves grow shorter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenus name comes from the Greek words echinos meaning a hedgehog and ops meaning appearance in reference to the flower heads.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'Neill Seeds","offers":[{"title":"50","offer_id":50518415507706,"sku":"ECRITRO-50","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"100","offer_id":50518415540474,"sku":"ECRITRO-100","price":7.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"150","offer_id":50518415573242,"sku":"ECRITRO-150","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/0038\/5981\/files\/il_fullxfull.1629074480_i06b.jpg?v=1790090651","url":"https:\/\/www.theamericangringo.com\/ja\/products\/echinops-ritro-seeds-globe-thistle","provider":"The American Gringo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}