Cynara cardunculus | Cardoon | Porto Spineless Feather reed Grass Plants will provide excellent contrast

Plants will provide excellent contrast and texture almost year-round to the border or shaded garden and look lovely in naturalised landscapes along streams or on the periphery of the water garden

Achilleas make a fantastic addition to the cottage garden

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Ruby Port is particularly beautiful with its fully double spurless rich red wine coloured flowers that appear from late spring and into early summer

Cynara cardunculus | Cardoon | Porto Spineless Feather reed Grass Plants will provide excellent contrastCynara cardunculus or Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world. This striking architectural plant is valued for its dramatic foliage. The leaves are arching and deeply toothed and are a soft grey green in colour. We have them in our white garden and they are a real statement plant. In summer they bear tall flower stems that a topped with chubby thistle buds which open to the most stunning violet blue purple flowers that