Two plants to ID please.

[Skyedriver]

The first (there are two in the pot, there had been 3 last year but one was eaten), I thought were Echinops or Eryngium but I'm not so sure now as the leaves aren't spiky edged just simple rounded. I'm sure they're a blue flower but they've never actually flowered yet, just what the box said...

The second, I have absolutely no idea unless this is what I thought was in photo 1! It looks like a pineapple! Yes there is something else growing in there, probably a weed.

Thanks fellow and better horticulturists.

[Megaflow]

According to an app I have, they are:

1) Blue eryngo
2) Lily