Echium pininana (common names: Tree echium)
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Echium pininana (aka Tree echium)
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Questions on Echium pininana
Asked on 11 May, 2008 1 reply
I have grown echium pininana from seed and have nine seedlings about 2ins high when shall i repot
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Asked on 16 Jul, 2008 1 reply
I bought an echium last year after seeing them on a recent visit to cornwall. however, mine seems to have gone very bushy and not flowering. can anybody suggest what to do or how to cut it back.
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Echium pininana sudden death, what's going on?
Asked on 30 Aug, 2008 5 replies
I have been growing E. pininana for two years now. However, for the second year running, one of my plants has just keeled over! It starts with loss of turgidity and then the plant just shrivels up and dies. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what's going on? In the photo there are two plants the top one is healthy and the bottom one is the afflicted specimen.
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Comments on Echium pininana
2 Jun, 2008
hi Bren
i would get them in the ground as soon as possible. full sun and well drained soil
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4 Jun, 2008
these all selfseeded two or three years ago from two that i grew from seed. the first year they grow to about three foot. but they look tatty in the winter! and sometimes the take three years to flower. now hopefuly they will seed again!
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4 Jun, 2008
What a stunning photo, well done Sandra you have done a really good job in that garden.Hel.xxx.
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13 Jun, 2008
Looks like something out of Dr Seuss.
Brilliant !
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1 Jul, 2008
Me and my shadow! Brilliant picture Jack looks like a toddler compared to that plant! Hel.xxx.
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16 Jul, 2008
Cut the dead flowers (if any) off during summer and prune back hard in autumn to keep its shape. These plants don't grow well in pots as their 2-3m high and 1-2m wide frame needs to be kept within a spacious garden bed.
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30 Aug, 2008
Hi I don't mean to state the obvious but you are aware of the fact that echium pininana are bienniel and that they are meant to keel over and die in the second year, which is why they are so good at seeding themselves throughout people's gardens to such an extent that they become like a weed.
I hope this helped.
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30 Aug, 2008
Thanks, but the plant in question is less than one year old. It hasn't flowered yet. It has just keeled over before it's time! I really don't know what's going on. The same thing happened last year. Any ideas?
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30 Aug, 2008
Well before you start throwing your money at the problem by buying remidies and fertilisers and god knows what else, go through the fundementals, research the optimum growing conditions of Echium pininana, see if these growing conditions correspond to what you are subjeting it too. Assess the the soil, light, moisture content, wind exposure etc.
Ok let me know how you get on, I'm sure we can figure this out.
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31 Aug, 2008
They are very top-heavey plants. Wind rock might be damageing the roots.
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26 Sep, 2008
Amazing looking plants, they have such an architectural shape, very eye-catching !
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26 Sep, 2008
Uh-oh... they come from the Canary Islands, Flcrazy...just a few miles east of you!... will we be seeing echium pininana in your tropical bed? I sure would give them a try if I were gardening in N.C. LOL!!!
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Members' notes...
twelve foot +++ biennial that will self seed!
likes full sun and poor free-draining soil.
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Joined 18 May, 2007
Pest county, near Budapest
28 May, 2008
Very artistic!
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