Flower of the Day
They just showed up in my garden a few years ago. The leaves looked like thistle leaves, but rather huge. Eventually, the flower popped up and it looked like a thistle — but huge.
I discovered, after minimal research, that these flowers are called “Giant Thistles” because they look exactly like thistles, but are much bigger. Unlike regular thistles, they have no thorns.
The bees love them, so I love them too. They have been spreading around the garden for several years.
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Categories: #Flowers, #Photography, Gardens
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Lovely!
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Oh what beautiful thistle. I simply adore their flowers.
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It is quite pretty and a very nice lavender. The color of darker lilacs. They smell pretty, too.
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Those wild flowers can be quite nice. They’re usually pretty hardy too.
Leslie
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The “garden” flowers have mostly give up and gone south, so everything is wild or sort of wild.
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and hardy too….
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Lovely flowers. I think that they are red clovers.
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They are wildflowers, so they could be. They are very pretty. AT this point, almost all of our flowers are wild 🙂
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They look very good. I don’t like the real thistles, too big.
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Well, these have no thorns. They are definitely flowers. Large, but not huge. Not quite as tall as the columbine.
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