Echinops ritro

Perennial

zone 3-9

Easy to Grow. In spring cover seeds with 1/8 in of soil or compost and water well. Plants prefer a sunny well drained location. Excellent bee plan and dried or cut flower. Masses of violet blue blooms, July- August

Roots are medicinally used as a galactagogue (increases milk flow in nursing mothers) and are anti-inflammatory.

About 70 seeds per packet

Open pollinated, no GMO’s, untreated, hand harvested.

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