On the Mantlepiece Series - Echinops Ritro.

23.21 x 21.89 cm

A vase containing plants ‘perfect for pollinators’ sits proudly on the mantlepiece amongst other beautiful and important objects.

This ever-popular perennial, attracts hoards of insects, including bees, moths and butterflies, and the seeds provide food for finches and other seed-eating birds.

Perfectly round balls of small, intense, deep-blue flowers sit on straight stems that pop up from a thick clump of long, thistle type (but not very prickly) leaves.

Plant in full sun or partial shade in poor, well-drained soil, and cut down to the ground after flowering to encourage a second flush of flowers.

You can lift and divide congested colonies in autumn or spring.

This is an original drypoint etching.

This artwork is sold unmounted and unframed.