Good for: Drought gardens, mixed borders ... Upright stems carry small, grey-blue, thistle-like flowers that sit on a broad, spiny ruff that adds enormously to their impact.

Sow thistle is commonly found in crops, gardens and waste areas. As with many members of the Asteraceae family, it starts life as a rosette, and then bolts to form an upright flower stem. Sow thistle ...

Current management practices: annually hand pull or dig around rosettes if thistle has bloomed, clip off flowers, buds, and fruiting bodies to prevent seed production mow population before flower buds ...