Beautiful, evergreen, & exceptionally rare, this Summer blooming Echium creates a dense, multi-branching woody shrub to 5’ tall bearing unusual smooth brownish red branches with maturity.
by AnniesAnnuals Apr 14, 2012 7:59 AM
In Spring it bursts into a mass of cylindrical soft blue spikes with long, protruding anthers. And the flowers keep coming till mid-summer.
by AnniesAnnuals Apr 14, 2012 7:59 AM
Echium plant in the Anglican Cathedral early November gardens in Nelson, New Zealand
by RosinaBloom Nov 9, 2012 8:19 PM
Echium stalk showing a smoothering of blue flowers
by RosinaBloom Nov 20, 2012 1:17 PM
Waihi Beach shop garden, NZ
by RosinaBloom Feb 8, 2018 5:31 PM