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product_id: 64927869
title: "Echinops ritro L. : aka Globe thistle, a garden tested, hardy perennial plant supplied in a half litre pot"
brand: "ballyrobert gardens"
price: "FREE"
currency: KGS
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reviews_count: 1
url: https://www.desertcart.kg/products/64927869-echinops-ritro-l-aka-globe-thistle-a-garden-tested-hardy
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region: Kyrgyzstan
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# Echinops ritro L. : aka Globe thistle, a garden tested, hardy perennial plant supplied in a half litre pot

**Brand:** ballyrobert gardens
**Price:** FREE
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** Echinops ritro L. : aka Globe thistle, a garden tested, hardy perennial plant supplied in a half litre pot by ballyrobert gardens
- **How much does it cost?** FREE with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Description

Plants are sold in half litre sized pots (9cm pots that are nearly pint sized, about 520ml in capacity).  All the cultivars we sell have been grown and tested in our own garden (which is an RHS partner garden open to the public).  When your plants arrive they can usually be planted straight out after soaking in water for 3 or 4 minutes. A good rule of thumb; make the soil level of the pot level with the rest of your border when planting out. Another rule of thumb; nearly all our plants will grow in indirect sunlight; we are in the British Isles after all. Another rule of thumb (!); Plants usually do better in the ground, which is unsurprising because that where they can from! Containers are ok if plants are kept fed and watered during their growing months, and in a warmer place during the winter. Try not to over water!  During the year plants can be in various states of growth. The same plant delivered in early spring could be much bigger or smaller if delivered in late spring. Please be aware of this when ordering or receiving them.  Some plants may have their flowers and foliage cut back when we send them, and look a bit awful! Don't worry, it is for their own good; some plants like to travel light. Similarly bulbs, rhizomes, and some plants may be dormant or dying back for the year when you order them, they may even look dead - that is the nature of hardy perennials so don't worry. Plant them out and wait, perhaps until next year, patience is a virtue in the hardy perennial game. Eventually your hardy perennials should grow back beautiful year after year. Again, this is the nature of hardy perennials - they die back and grow back, die back and grow back, year after year after year. Some years are better than others. You get the picture!  Postage and packaging is a flat fee of £3.99 per order  If you are for some reason upset in any way please contact us - we're human.

## Features

- About this item
- About this cultivar: Echinops ritro L. probably gets it name, ritro (RIH-tro), from the Greek for globe thistle, rhytros. Any way, it 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. Great, great, great, great cut flower plant.
- Position: Full sun, partial shade Soil: Almost any soil, grows well in Ballyrobert Flowers: July, August, September, October Other features: Grows well in Ballyrobert, Bees and Butterflies, Interesting Foliage or Fruit, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (RHS AGM), Cut Flowers or Dried Flowers Hardiness: H7 - Hardy in the severest European continental climates (< -20°C), Fully hardy - grows well in Ballyrobert! Habit: Clump forming, bushy Foliage: Deciduous Height: 90 - 120 cm (3
- About this genus: Echinops (EH-ki-nops)is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. Echinops can be annuals, biennials or perennials with simple or pinnately lobed, spiny leaves and spherical blue or whitish flower-heads. As always most of what we sell is perennial. If it isn’t, don’t worry, we mention it!
- They are native to Europe east to central Asia and south to the mountains of tropical Africa. The genus name comes from the Greek words echinos meaning a hedgehog and ops meaning appearance in reference to the flower heads.
- As usual books tell you they are “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.” But….. we grow most of our in rich, heavy, wet clay!?!? So try and see…. Books, eh? Who need them?!

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## Customer Reviews

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    Sorry looking plant.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2018*

Was disappointed when it arrived in the post. One sorry looking plant for the price. But will give them the benefit of the doubt I have planted it out and hopefully it may survive!.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-08*