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I have a plant I want a bit of help with, i am not sure what its called
either, there is obviously something wrong with it, any ideas appreciated The link below takes you to a 2mb image, so be patient lol http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...b/DSC00154.JPG |
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:11:50 +0100, "Rob" wrote:
I have a plant I want a bit of help with, i am not sure what its called either, there is obviously something wrong with it, any ideas appreciated The link below takes you to a 2mb image, so be patient lol http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...b/DSC00154.JPG It looks to me like Ecium pininana, in its first year. Where are you? It is not hardy in most parts of UK. http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/6227/1 The problem looks like scorch from recent hot sun. Pam in Bristol |
"Rob" wrote I have a plant I want a bit of help with, i am not sure what its called either, there is obviously something wrong with it, any ideas appreciated The link below takes you to a 2mb image, so be patient lol http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...b/DSC00154.JPG Just a thought. You seem to be building there? Any cement dust blowing about, especially when you might be spraying the plant with water? -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
"Sacha" It looks to me like Ecium pininana, in its first year. Where are you? It is not hardy in most parts of UK. http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/6227/1 The problem looks like scorch from recent hot sun. Echiums like sun - the ones in Tresco grow wild all over the island, very exposed to sun, salt, fresh air and only the water nature sends them. I wonder if it's E. piniana or one of the shrubby ones - whose names I can't remember at the moment, E. candicans and E. fastuosum, I think! Its location would be interesting. Perhaps it has some scorch from watering it in hot sunshine or just too much water, generally? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) Am in Anglesey, North Wales, we have had a lot of sun recently, and quite warm, but only about a mile from the coast, so that keeps the temps down a bit, it usually gets sun in the afternoon, its shaded in the morning, I wasnt even aware that it flowered, it has only been down 1 year, from a seedling to that monster lol, as for watering, I only ever water when the sun has gone over the tops of the houses, and its nice and shaded and cool in the garden, but I will wait a bit longer still now you have mentioned, any further confirmations on its type appreciated, and help so far am very greatful for! |
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, "Rob" wrote: "Sacha" It looks to me like Ecium pininana, in its first year. Where are you? It is not hardy in most parts of UK. http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/6227/1 The problem looks like scorch from recent hot sun. Echiums like sun - the ones in Tresco grow wild all over the island, very exposed to sun, salt, fresh air and only the water nature sends them. I wonder if it's E. piniana or one of the shrubby ones - whose names I can't remember at the moment, E. candicans and E. fastuosum, I think! Its location would be interesting. Perhaps it has some scorch from watering it in hot sunshine or just too much water, generally? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) Am in Anglesey, North Wales, we have had a lot of sun recently, and quite warm, but only about a mile from the coast, so that keeps the temps down a bit, it usually gets sun in the afternoon, its shaded in the morning, I wasnt even aware that it flowered, it has only been down 1 year, from a seedling to that monster lol, as for watering, I only ever water when the sun has gone over the tops of the houses, and its nice and shaded and cool in the garden, but I will wait a bit longer still now you have mentioned, any further confirmations on its type appreciated, and help so far am very greatful for! Echium piniana flowers in its second year and then dies. Usually, it leaves hundreds of seedlings behind. It's a sort of Hilton Hotels for bees who absolutely mob the flowers, IME. But it does need lengthy sun hours to make it flower, set seed and do it all again in a year or two. Yours might be too shaded to do well but all you can do now is wait to see if it will flower because what you call a 'monster' is nothing I'm afraid - though I don't want to be discouraging! I had three in a walled garden in Jersey and each grew to at least 12' in one year, flowered profusely, died and left behind so many seedlings that I was reduced to begging people to take them away. IF yours turns out to be one of the shrubby ones (and I don't think it will) it doesn't die off but (frost permitting) returns each year. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:11:50 +0100, "Rob" wrote:
I have a plant I want a bit of help with, i am not sure what its called either, there is obviously something wrong with it, any ideas appreciated The link below takes you to a 2mb image, so be patient lol http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...b/DSC00154.JPG As Pam says, it looks like Echium pininana. Lots grow in coastal gardens in west Cornwall (and on waste ground, if the dead plants are dumped after flowering), and as Sacha says, on Tresco. It comes from the Canary Islands. It's biennial/triennial, depending on your definition. Seeds are set in the summer and have usually germinated by the autumn. They overwinter and then in the second year form a rosette of dark green leaves on a hairy/prickly trunk, say up to three feet high. Yours looks as if its at this stage, but the foliage looks rather yellow-green, compared to the dark green it ought to be. In the third year, it'll put up its flower spike, anything up to 15 ft. They produce thousands of seeds, and once you've had one, you have them for ever! They like a well-drained soil that retains some moisture, but aren't fussy about pH. They don't like cold winds but will take salty ones. They like full sun and will take a light frost. I wouldn't worry about the tatty lower leaves, they get that way as the trunk grows, but the top growth looks a bit poorly. Perhaps the drainage isn't very good, or the soil is poor and they're a bit short of nitrogen. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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