Scottish Thistle 20-Seeds Non-HMO Fresh 2024~My Brooklyn Botanical Garden Club!

Description: Genuine Scottish Thistle Seeds 20-Seeds for the 2024 garden... by, The Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Club! Matured Seeds from, "My Brooklyn Botanical Garden Club" It's one of our main attractions in our herb section, a guaranteed show stopper! It's of the Rarest Type and We Liked This One The Best! Guaranteed 100% FRESHFully Matured Flower Seeds from this year's Harvest. Onopordum Acanthium: Scottish thistle is a flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It is native to Europe and Western Asia, from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalized elsewhere. It's the National Flower of Scotland and was widely re-popularized from its debut in the movie Braveheart, with Mel Gibson. The Scottish Thistle is a biennial herbaceous plant. A leaf rosette is formed in the first year. And in the second year, it grows to impressive growth with heights of 6ft to 9ft and the plant diameters can be as much as 5ft. wide. The long wide blueish green eye-popping leaves are artistically covered with a layer of whitish cobweb hairs, which adds a silvery look to it's majestic beauty. Each leaf, which can be pretty-wide and over 3ft long, are ovoid, short-toothed, divided, wavy and slightly thorny. The stem is broad with run-off edges from thorny wings that does a good job from intruders. The stem can prick your hand and prevent anyone from touching it or pulling it out of the ground. But don't worry, it's nothing like the needles of the cactus. The thorns never break-off and will not become embedded under your skin. Also the plants thorns will not hurt your dog or cat, but they will learn to respect it. The seed germinates easily, but only after the first ground frost, as only after the seed gets first chill, will the germination process begin. To force germination and to make the seeds germinate directly, the seeds must be soaked in water for several hours and then naturally dried-out, after that you can freeze for a day or so. Then you can sow the seeds directly into your soil. Organic Scotch Thistle / Onopordum Acanthium A magnificent plant. The scotch thistle - the National flower of Scotland. Can reach 6-9 feet in height. It has large triangular stems and huge silver blue leaves that will stand out from a great distance. Everyone will stop and stare at it's elegant statue and unusual structure. Add to this, all the lovely purple violet flowers which makes this plant attract people who pass by, to stop and admire it. It also makes a wonderful focal point plant and can grow great in large pots and placed on each side of your stoop or walkway. And don't believe whatever you read, It's very easy to grow! It does need some sunlight and water, but is happy on poor soil. It's a true biennial, so to keep a display going, it is necessary to plant every year, but its well worth it. The flowers are loved by butterflies, bumblebees and goldfinches come around when the plant starts to seed. Mostly the Scotch thistle acts as a biennial and take a year and a half to bloom flowers. However in some climates or with an early start, it might flower in one year and act as an annual. Typically, the first year the plant produces a flattened rosette of silvery leaves that can reach two feet long and a foot wide. These are broadly elliptic, coarsely lobed, with sharp spines and covered with silver gray hairs that give the leaves a velvety appearance. During this first year the plant is producing a large fleshy tap root. The leaves will stay the same size over the frigid winter and not die. And when the snow melts it will have an interesting silvery appearance. In the second year it puts up a central stem triangular stem that is silver gray in color and again covered with hairs and spines. The leaves are attached alternately on the stem without a stalks and form leaf wings that extend down the stem. The stalk becomes very branched with each branch ending in a solitary flower. These can be up to two inches across with spiny tipped bracts. The flowers are purple to violet in color and appear from July through September. Flower stalks can reach 8 feet in height in some conditions they can go as high as 10 feet. Flowers are attractive to butterflies and bees. The large seeds are a favorite of goldfinches. Growing Scotch thistles can be sown in situ, they germinate well and can be easily grown. Studies have suggested that they can germinate at any time of the year but do need a light/dark cycle of certain day lengths to do well. IF the day is long enough sometimes seeds sprouted in early spring will flower the first year and act as an annual. If planting directly outside make sure there is plenty of space between seedlings. At least 24-30 inches. If planting indoors start seeds at least 30 days before last frost date, earlier is better to give them a good start. Use individual pots and grow plant to a small rosette of leaves before transplanting out. Harden off plants in the pots before planting out and ensure that the whole root ball is planted directly in a large enough hole. Try to disturb the roots as little as possible. We grow all our thistles from transplants and find this method works very well. If you want to keep a display of thistles you will need to seed every year to ensure that you have plants in the rosette stage and the flowering stage each year. These plants do well in the same spot year after year. IF they start to get a little smaller add a little mulch in the fall around the plants and they will grow taller. Uses Surprise! These things are edible. The young stems were cooked like asparagus or rhubarb after the spines had been removed. The flowers buds can be used as a globe artichoke substitute although they are much smaller and very fiddly to work with. Other uses The seeds have a very high oil content about 25%. This was used by the ancient Scottish people as lamp oil fuel, but the oil is also edible. The stem hairs were often collected to create soft stuff pillows. Medical uses The flowering plant is used in some types of heart medications and there is some suggestions coming from the health field, that the juice of the plant may be effective in treating certain types of cancers and ulcers. Please Note Our Return Policy At SaveDoe: THERE'S NEVER ANY RESTOCKING FEES ON ANYTHING YOU PURCHASE and We Will Insure your Satisfaction on Every Item! If There's Ever A Problem, Just Let US Know and We'll Respond with a Solution, Giving You, Our Customer, "Pure Total Satisfaction" no questions asked! 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