Its vivid, summer and fall purple flowerheads sit on reddish ruffs and feature a starry explosion from the top of each flower ...

We visited the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, and these were the three must-have plants and flowers we are growing ...

Cecilia Lei muses about the strange, wild world of flowers. "Eryngium planum looks like a prop from the 1993 film 'Coneheads,'" she writes.

How to grow eryngium. ... The inch-wide, silvery serrated leaves can measure more than a yard long and sometimes the flowers have a purple tint. I have seen magnificent specimens at Kew gardens, ...