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Taken in our garden earlier this summer...

Eryngium (Sea Holly) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. There are about 250 species. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the center of diversity in South America. Common names include eryngo and sea holly (though the genus is not related to the true hollies, Ilex).

These are annual and perennial herbs with hairless and usually spiny leaves. The dome-shaped umbels of steely blue or white flowers have whorls of spiny basal bracts. Some species are native to rocky and coastal areas, but the majority are grassland plants.

Species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Numerous hybrids have been selected for garden use, of which E. × oliverianum and E. × tripartitum have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Many species of Eryngium have been used as food and medicine. Eryngium campestre is used as a folk medicine in Turkey. Eryngium creticum is a herbal remedy for scorpion stings in Jordan. Eryngium elegans is used in Argentina and Eryngium foetidum in Latin America and South-East Asia. Native American peoples used many species for varied purposes. Cultures worldwide have used Eryngium extracts as anti-inflammatory agents. Eryngium yields an essential oil and contains many kinds of terpenoids, saponins, flavonoids, coumarins, and steroids.

The roots have been used as vegetables or sweetmeats. Young shoots and leaves are sometimes used as vegetables like asparagus. E. foetidum is used in parts of the Americas and Asia as a culinary herb. It is similar to coriander or cilantro, and is sometimes mistaken for it. It may be called spiny coriander or culantro.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium

Eryngium or Sea Holly "Silver ghost" Taken in Bushey Rose Garden.

Small bee on eryngium {sea holly} in my garden. This has donr better than ever this year and the bees love it!

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# Sea Holly (Eryngium Amethystinum) or Eryngium alpinum

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The amazing blues of the Sea Holly (Eryngium) take their turn to enchant me in my ever-changing garden. To me they look like stars come to earth.

"Unlike your favorite painting or sentimental vase, a landscape is alive and constantly changing."

~ Unknown

"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven." ~ A.J. Balfour

The most original and unique flower in my garden has got to be Sea Holly (Eryngium 'Big Blue'). It is singing its blue ballad right now.

"Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anyone and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you are working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing."

~ Billie Hollday

Also known as Rattlesnake-Master, Sea Holm, Spiny Cilantro and Miss Wilmott's Ghost, these hardy and semi-hardy perennials bloom in the latter half of summer. They're big plants, ranging from 18 to 36 inches (46 to 91 centimeters) high with a one-foot (30-centimeter) spread [source: Deem-Reilly]. They're hardy to USDA zone 5.

Eryngium Giganteum (Siver Ghost or Miss WillmTaken in Bushey Rose Garden.otts ghost).

Christmas flower arrangement done by my son,

I almost forgot to take some photos of them.

Flora SOOC

This was hard! My fingers itched to alter this image, but I managed to post it without changing a thing!!

One of my favorite, and impossible for me to "get to thrive" flowers. Sea Holly. It's a tough one, and I'm guessing it needs to be close to salt water. This year I was lucky.

A 'Honey Bee'.. 'Apis mellifera'.. on some 'Sea holly".. 'Eryngium'..

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Eryngium giganteum, ommonly known as Miss Willmott's Ghost. Have a spiritual weekend ... :-))

This Sea Holly is taken looking inland where the sand dune (Towans) were nicely lit by the low early evening sun...

Denver Botanic Gardens

Another image of the rather smelly, but beautiful Sea Holly.

Taken using a vintage Nikon AIS 55mm Micro manual lens. Hand held belly shot lol which never gets easier I have to say.... Mind you it was atop a dune/towan and so i was sloped upwards so a little bit easier ;)

Beach and sea in the background..

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So busy and so fast it was a little difficult using the vintage manual lens to get sharp focus on the Bee. A few got deleted but several passable with this being my favourite I think....

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One of my favourite plants in the garden-Eryngium (Seaholly).

The beautiful flower heads reminded me of emerging lollypops

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I love the way the Sea holly gets dark blue as it gets older.

I love how Sea Holly turns blue as it matures.

...perfectly peaceful

God is an artist of Nature;

He paints in colors, so rare,

The bursting bud in the Springtime,

The lovely trees everywhere:

Autumn leaves so very gorgeous,

In colors of every hue,

The fleecy clouds, so pure and white,

That sail in the skies of blue.

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "God is an Artist of Nature" (1940s)

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For Macro Mondays Flower theme

A photo of sea holly at the Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Newton, Iowa.

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The wonderful, rare, wild Sea Holly [Eryngium Maritimum ] grows in isolated places along the coast here on stabilised sand dunes.

Its differing green coloured and white veined and edged leaves which are almost luminous, make it very attractive I think. The seed heads which are just forming will eventually turn a light purple/blue adding to its lovely appearence. These plants can survive in extremely inhospitable places and can exist with very little moisture and are salt and wind tolerant. They were originally plants of the high arid places of the World such as the Peruvian mountains and the Andes. They somehow, with many other similar plants, migrated here some 15000 years ago as their imprints have been found in Fossils from these areas. Luckily no one was building border walls then!!

Ive reported the location of this beautiful plant to the Biodiversity Dept of Trinity College, Dublin who will log its position for future study.

This plant is said to have aphrodisiac properties but others say its not true. Mind you swalowing the prickily leaves is...er... would be quite severe and Im saying no more as my throat is killing me at the moment!!! And you lot, behave yerselves!!! Lol!

Hope you like the photo.

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We were just two of the visitors not privileged enough to live here but fortunate enough to be able breathe the same air and soak up the same atmosphere as those lucky enough to - of that, which is Gwithian....I have always been so thankful for that. It feels almost like a transfusion that has to last us till the next visit....

Shot wide open using A Sony A7M2 with a vintage CZ Pancolar 1.8mm lens with a Helicoid attached. So, Sun Sea, Sky and Sea Holly.

Although shot manually at the widest aperture I still had to dial in a full stop over to get this scene as seen - if you understand what I mean lol...

I was puzzled myself but hoping that in due course I get to know why...maybe because I attached the Helicoid which truth to tell I am still just getting used to using. I got the shot I was after though which gave me great satisfaction and the colour and lighting are spot on as seen...a belly shot of course and needing to be helped to my feet but determined to get what I could before it becomes impossible...Sue :)

FFF+ Snap Happy is a group for FFF images that reflect positivity, happiness, joy and beauty only. Cheryl chose the theme Natures patterns this week.

I spent ages yesterday trying to photograph shells that I thought would be perfect for the theme. I didn't like the way they turned out and scrapped the lot.

Back to square 1 which was no square at all.

Then I spotted this Eryngium in the garden. Eryngiums are one of my favourite native plants (this one isn't native) mainly because of their gorgeous blues and usual patterns.

I feel like the patterns take you on a psychedelic ride and that is indeed joyful (allegedly).

Will try to catch up with people later tonight or tomorrow.

A welcome addition in any floral display as they last for a long time.

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in my garden looking like burnished metallic sculptures

Close-up, abstract view, of Sea Holly leaves.

Olympus EM1 + 60mm macro

There was a drop in temperature of almost 20 degrees between this morning and the last two days; and the westerly winds brought much needed rain. We went anyway to have lunch and to look at the sea at Zandvoort. It was a bit wet for a leisurely walk, but on the way back to the train station I spotted this pretty Sea Holly in some dunes.

Much like Skirret - about which I wrote a couple of days ago - and Salsify, the roots of Sea Holly can be prepared as a vegetable. In older times - the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - they were candied and used as an aphrodisiac. In fact, Shakespeare mentions them in that context. For their more culinary use you might consult the cookbook put together by Elizabeth Grey (1582-1651), Duchess of Kent: True Gentlewoman's Delight.

It seems a bit of a contradiction to soften the look of a prickly Sea Holly - after all therin lies its sculptural beauty - but there we are - I used my macro lens with my camera on its Art 'soft focus' setting.