Alpinė zunda – Eryngium alpinum

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Alpinė zunda
Latin plant name	Eryngium alpinum L.
English plant name	Sea Holly
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Clump, beds (mixborder) Groups Rockery, retaining walls Wild plant parterre
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous
Spacing, cm	From 30 to 40
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	tall - 61-80 cm
Habitus	flower with expressive habitus, for design as accent
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	gray
Blossom color	blue, blue tints
Blooming time	1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade
Blooming period	2 months
General ornamentality	decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	5
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, scrub division. Propagated by scrub division in May. This propagation method is used rarely, because establishing of splited parts is not always successful. Seeds are sown after picking up in Autumn or in Spring. Germinating process is long (especially if seeds are stored during Winter). 500 seeds per 1 gram, 1000 seedlings per 8 grams of seeds sown. Seedlings are pricked out in 10-15 cm distance. Some species are self-sowing plants. Seedlings are pricked out to the final growing place. 260 seeds per 1 gram. 1000 seedlings per 25 grams of seeds sown. Seeds are sown between November and March. Seeds germinate within 6-8 weeks.