Lilies: What else do you grow?, 1 by Leftwood

Leftwood wrote:
Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum-now correctly spelled), is an annual, but grows fast. It really hates transplanting, and unless you do it early in life with only 2-3 mature true leaves (or less), you're liable to kill it if you try. Even then, ultimate size will be less. So its best to sow it where you want it to grow. I've gotten the best germination sown in the late fall, and second best sown as early as soil can be worked in spring. Sowing after danger of frost is past has yielded nothing for me. But plants don't seem to emerge until around that date.

It only produces one stalk, which brances toward the top for 3-10 rather large, yellow thistle like looking flowers.

Wickedly thorny, but makes nice dried flowers too.