Purple Teasel 100 Seeds

• Up for sale is purple flowering teasel. Dipsacus fullonum.
• Teasel is a beautiful plant that is very easy to grow. The first year it makes a rosette of leaves. The second year it can grow to almost 7' tall and has a unique flower head.
• It flowers first from a purple ring around the middle of the large cone-like head. The ring of flowers grow in width over a few days, the center of the blooming section may die off leaving two rings, one growing towards the top and one towards the bottom of the cone.
• Several long, leaf-like bracts branch out from the base of the flower and curve upward around the flower head. The egg shaped flower head measures 3-4" long.
• Once they are finished blooming the flower head dries leaving a spectacular egg shaped spiny ball with unusual long thin arms surrounding it. These can be collected for dried flower arrangements that last forever.
• Plant in sunny areas, with well drained soil. They need little or no care, are fairly drought tolerant and deer and rabbit resistant.
• Let them reseed for future plants or collect the seed heads to control spreading.
• Biennial
• Zone: 3-8
• Sun: full sun
• Water: regular to low
• Soil: rich, well draining soil.
• Height: up to 7' tall.
• Bloom time: spring thru fall.
• Difficultly: easy