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Echium pinana - how to grow?
I recently saw the towering spires of this plant in Devon and want to
grow some here in Cheltenham. Chiltern offer seed but a search of the web gives me no clue about when to sow them or other care details. Anyone how to grow them? Thanks! Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/ |
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This year in the early Summer my plant was about 9 feet tall and a towering spire of flowers. This is what I did--- you sow the seeds in spring to flower and die the next year-- Monacarpic Bienniel. You may still have time so hurry up. My two plants for next year One blue one white are about 3ft tall now.They are best grown in pots. Give them big pots and plenty of root room.Plenty of water they droop very quickly, they tell you when they need watering. My flowering plant finished up in a 18" pot. Feed often and try to give a little frost protection by putting in the shelter of the house. Nothing special but you have to get an EARLY start. You cannot successfully grow and flower all in I year. Like so many things with agrdening PLAN AHEAD. Seeds are very expensive too but germination is good. Hope this helps. |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
... The message from (Steve Harris) contains these words: I recently saw the towering spires of this plant in Devon and want to grow some here in Cheltenham. Chiltern offer seed but a search of the web gives me no clue about when to sow them or other care details. Anyone how to grow them? It will be too cold and wet for them there in winter, they will only survive into the second year (when the flower spike appears) in the mildest areas of the country. It was pretty spectacular at Ness earlier this summer and my colleague at work has it growing and flowering in Holywell - abt 500ft asl in a garden on the north side of a wooded hill. I'm awaiting a donation of seeds ;-) -- Rod My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp Just remove the weedy bits and transplant the appropriate symbol at. .. |
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i love these flowers, so impressive bought a one yr old plant from a nursery year before last and kept it in a pot as i knew we were moving. anyway when we moved I planted against a west facing wall and i thought it would b fine cos i live near the city centre we don't get very severe frosts.
anyway unfortunately when we were away at my wife's parents for xmas it snowed and i thought the snow which had settled on the crown had killed it. Suprisingly come spring while the crown was dead the plant sent up neumerous flower spikes from below the crown, and by the end of the summer it looked like a curly wig of those lovely small purple flowers. Was quite a feature, however unfortunately it then died over the next winter and the film which had pictures of the "wig" corrupted and so i have no record of it |
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