Scabiosa stellata | Starball Weddings still hovering over a beautifully

still hovering over a beautifully etched thistle in the kind of art-meets-science still life that inspires a generation of Victorian naturalists

It bears upright spikes of lime green flowers from spring to early summer

A great plant for a dry site

An excellent vertical contrast plant and particularly effective planted en masse in a naturalistic planting

In milder areas

Scabiosa stellata | Starball Weddings still hovering over a beautifully4 for $20 Also known as Paper Moons or Star Flowers. The flower of this Scabiosa species is a subtle beauty, soft dusty powdery blue outer petals with a cream flecked with pink pincushion center. But it's the next stage of growth these plants are prized for. When the flowers yield to seedheads, the meaning of its name, star ball, becomes abundantly clear. The seedheads appear as perfect papery spheres floating on long wiry stems, with the dimpled