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There’s no denying that giant scabious (Cephalaria gigantea) is a big plant – it’s right there, in the name. Twice, if you include both common and botanical appellations. Its handsome mound of blue-grey foliage bulks up impressively from nothing in early spring to quite something by early summer, until it’s taking up a not insignificant amount of border real estate. And it’s stems are nothing if not tall – not something anyone could say about me, but they reach way over my head, to over 2 metres. But… and here’s the thing… the delicate flowers that bob and wave about on the end of these wiry supports are no bigger than those you might find on the field scabious or knautia to which they bear such a marked resemblance and so, to my mind, this large plant manages the impressive feet of seeming quite airy and lacking in bulk. Big, but also, small.
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