Blue Globe Thistle

Our Experience

We have grown Blue Globe Thistle in our backyard habitat for years. We first encountered it at the Monticello Gardens and noticed how many pollinators were attracted to the unusually flowers.

This well-behaved perennial is one of the few beneficial non-natives we consider as such. It hasn’t spread much and has not given any volunteer seedlings. It does come back year after year thriving on the usual benign neglect that we offer it. It is very heat and drought tolerant.

Ours in planted with rattlesnake master and blue sea holly.