Newbie question, can anyone Identify this plant?

 


Hi All,

I'm a newbie not only to this forum, but the whole gardening thing. ;-)

I've just returned home after a day out a the RHS gardens at Wisley.
Whilst there I saw a plant which I would very much like to know the
name of.
I read the adjacent label to the plant, but this was obviously the wrong
label!!

So please can anyone tell what this is :


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Robbed666

 


It's an Eryngium. Perhaps someone will be along to tell you which
Eryngium.


Stewart Robert Hinsley

 

Robbed666 said:

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Could be Eryngium giganteum (based on the long flower cones).

http://www.dianeseeds.com/eryngium-giganteum.html

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