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sea holly
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sea holly
n.
A European seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum) having prickly, fleshy, bluish leaves and heads of blue or purplish flowers.
sea holly
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a European umbelliferous plant, Eryngium maritimum, of sandy shores, having spiny bluish-green stems and blue flowers
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Noun1.sea holly - European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coastsea holly - European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
Eryngium maritimum, sea eryngium, sea holm
Eryngium, genus Eryngium - large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
2.sea holly - widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowerssea holly - widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
Acanthus mollis, bear's breech, bear's breeches
acanthus - any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
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The lavenders, sages, sea hollies, several to most of the Nepetas (catmints), Artemisias, and, naturally, the Achilleas-like Coronation Gold are all easy to maintain.
Plants can take the heat by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Native wild coastal plants such as the sea hollies (Eryngium), seakale (Crambe) and mallow have many garden- worthy relatives.
Score with a shore thing; SPADEWORK by Chudziak, Bill / Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
If you visit your local garden centre, keep an eye out for some of my other favourites including many of the verbascums, Gazanias (for summer use), the autumn-flowering herbaceous sedums, lamb's ears, many sages and thymes, the weeping pear (Pyrus salicifolia) and the silvery-blue bracted sea hollies (eryngiums).
Your garden: Hi ho silver; Bright ideas with a taste of the exotic by Greenwood, Pippa / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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