Echium
How to Propagate
and Grow Successfully

Echium originate from the Canary Islands and are a genus of perennial flowering gardening plants.

Leaves are a green/grey colour with silver hairs.

The leaves form in rosettes and are a narrow lance shape.

Flowers are red, pink, purple or white and are formed in dense funnel shaped cymes spires.

These gardening plants grow quite well in coastal areas.

Essential info

Genus: Echium

Family: Boraginaceae

Species: Vulgare

Common Names: Vipers bugloss, bugloss.

Classification: Perennial.

Height: 50cm (20inches).

Flowering: From spring through to end of summer.

Where to plant info

Echium are an essential gardening plant that will give colour and form to your garden.

Where: Ideal for mixed borders.

They is an excellent plant for attracting bees.

Site: They prefer full sun, they thrive in it!

Soil: Any rich and free draining soil.

Propagation info By seed in summer.

Best germination temperature: 40 deg F.

Time from sowing to germination: 3 - 9 months.

They can be very slow to germinate, so be patient.

How to sow seeds..... read more

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