Protect your garden and lawn by attacking invasive thistle. These weeds thrive in hot summer weather, so it is essential to ...

Every August this thistle is one of the only plants to flower in most of Spain’s arid Mediterranean habitats, giving it a virtual monopoly on the local bees and other pollinators.

I was out in the countryside trying to find interesting flowers to photograph when I came across this beautiful bumble bee collecting pollen from a thistle, Scotland's emblem. There have been no ...

Queen Camilla marked the Edinburgh garden party on July 1 by wearing Queen Mary's Diamond Thistle Brooch, a historic piece of ...

The botanical name for the national floral emblem of Scotland, the thistle, is Onopordum acanthium, and as we all know, thistle plants have sharp prickles. The sharp protrusions can be anywhere on ...

It is called a thistle cup because its shape is designed to look like the head of a thistle flower. The base is rounded and the rim turns outwards at the edge, which copies the shape of the flower.

This common biennial with sticky seedpods influenced one of the most useful modern fasteners while also serving as a food ...

A Monarch butterfly feeds on a native tall thistle. Tall thistles, with silvery leaves, flower in August and September and are a good thistle.

Thistle, especially Canada thistle, is a persistent weed that you'll need patience to control since you'll have to outlast its extensive root system.

England has a rose, Wales a daffodil, Ireland a shamrock and Scotland the purple, prickly but proud thistle which has been our national emblem for centuries, here’s why.