Lawley's Garden
Echium pininana
Genus: Echium.
Species: Echium pininana.
Tree echium (Protct from Frost)
In its first year echium forms a low rosette of silver, hairy, spear-like leaves. The following year it suddenly spurts into growth and produces a single 4m (13.1ft) high flower spike festooned with blue, funnel-shaped flowers.
Exposure: Full sun
Hardiness: Half Hardy
Self seed
Height: 400cm
Spread: 90cm
Time to plant seeds: February to May
Chris & Mandy Aug 2010
