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ECHIUM pininana
Commonly known as Tree echium
(pinnifolium) - single stemmed biennial with long green leaves and enormous spikes of purplish-blue flowers
Further Reading....
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- Mature Size
- Tips and Advice
- Goes Well With
- Planting Combinations
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Evergreen - bristly, elliptic-lance-shaped , silver-hairy leaves to 7cm (3in) long
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Blue - purplish blue -
Height - 4m (13ft) -
Spread - 90cm (36in)
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Herbaceous - Early in the year, typically January till end of March, herbaceous plants might be supplied in 9cm pots to ensure timely despatch. - rosette forming biennial or short lived perennial. Each rosette produces a spike 1.5-4m (5-12ft) long of funnel-shaped flowers with large bracts
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Tall Shrub
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Tender - cool or frost free greenhouse - Tolerant of low temperatures, but not surviving being frozen. Except in frost-free inner-city areas or coastal extremities requires glasshouse conditions. Plant can withstand temperatures down to 1°C (34°F) -
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Partial shade - can tolerate light shade. -
May cause skin allergy or irritant - Having skin or eye contact with these plants could result in an allergic reaction, burning or rash. -
Additional Features - Architectural interest
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Endangered in the wild - These plants are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of 'Red Plants'. This is a list of threatened species in the wild, they are either critically, endangered or vulnerable to extinction. - Endangered
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Good to know - dramatic, fast-growing, tall spikes from second year. Will self-seed. Attractive to insects. -
Pests & Diseases - slugs. Under glass, whiteflies, red spider mites -
Place of origin - Canary Islands. -
Flower Shape - Spikes
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Hardiness - Half hardy (down to 0)
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Seasonal Interest - Autumn
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Soil Conditions - Fertile well drained soil
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Wildlife - Bee friendly -
Butterfly friendly
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Echium - Growing Guide
- Growing Echium candicans (E. fastuosum)
- Echium pininana - Video Tip ondemand_video
- From seedling to mature plant - Video Tip ondemand_video
Herbaceous Plants - Video Collection
- Dividing Herbaceous Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring Planting Osteospermums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing Summer Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing summer flowering Hemerocallis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Summer propagation - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Supporting Plants - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading meconopsis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading Delphiniums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Feeding herbaceous peonies - Video Tip ondemand_video
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4m (13ft)
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90cm (36in) |
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