Probably another one to be considered because it will be blooming soon is the globe thistle (Echinops).

She has also had good luck - so far - with foxglove, globe thistle, gaillardia and salvia.

The globe thistles need to be moved, to grow in a solid mass, so they can make a unanimous statement next year in midsummer.

They include echinops, the globe thistle, red bergamot and sneezewort; which centuries ago was used to make snuff.

Strawflower, globe thistle, Cut on long stems and arrange statice and silver dollar.

Now, in any garden center, they have ornamental grasses and all sorts of minor plants like globe thistles and yarrow.

Cut before the stiff bracts open into individual florets, globe thistle makes a good dried flower (or more accurately, a dried-flower bud).

Possibly not all thistle relatives are as easily tamed as the globe thistle.

Echinops niveus is a species in the genus Echinops or globe thistles.

Yarrow, cranesbill, goldenrod, globe thistle, rose campion and Michaelmas daisies are usually in the birds' top ten of herbaceous plants.