No cutting garden should be without Bachelor's Button for its long-lasting, thistle-like flowers in shades of deep blue, white and pink. A useful, bushy plant that blooms prolifically and tolerates dry climates. Provides an always needed blue hue for contrast to bright yellow and orange flowers. Let it grow freely in open spaces for a meadow effect with California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), or plant near the back of the border with Lance-leaved Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) and Gazania ( Gazania splendens).