This one was growing wild in my garden. I must admit after taking the photo it no longer existed. I once let a thistle plant grow in my garden, but when it began to go into competition with my apple tree, I removed it after a lengthy battle with its roots and wearing gloves for protection.
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thistles are cool. they are like a tough version of a flower.
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Thistles are wonderful flowers. It is the flower of Scotland.
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I absolutely love thistles!!! In fact, my favorite photo that I took when I first got a digital camera in 2004 was of a thistle. I will always remember that thistle.
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I also like them but they grow too big for my garden
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Growing up in New Jersey, thistles grew wild along with Queen Anne’s Lace–both considered weeds. Down here in Florida, I have yet to see a thistle. Such pretty flowers–they are not weeds to me.
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They grow wild here, are very attractive but grow very tall and wide in the gsrden and leave no room for anything else
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It is a beautiful flower/photo. 🙂 The only thistles i have ever seen have been quite small (<3ft) at home in uk. If the Scots have them as their national flower they must love the cold! That may explain why i have not seen one where i now live in Aus. 🙂
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There are various kinds of thistle. We have the giant ones here. They are very pretty, but are very tall and like to spread their seeds.
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ICK! They throw so many seeds! The horses won’t get near them. The deer that eat everything else won’t eat them. It is funny that so many people like them . . . but they are so pretty. When I was in school, I grew two types of thistles as cut flowers. They were weird, but I miss them now. Eryngium and Echinops. Castroville, which is about half an hour to the south, is the artichoke capital of the world.
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I never thought of that, but artichokes are also a thistle. We import them from France mostly. My thistle was almost tree sized.
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One of the tumbleweeds is the Russian thistle (exotic / introduced). It is bigger than some of the native tumbleweeds.
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No tumbleweeds in Switzerland, the climate is probably not suitable
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It is too mountainous. There is no place for them to tumble.
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