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RE: Echium simplex (like a white E. wildprettii)



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> De: Sean O'Hara <SAOUC@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU>
> A: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Asunto: Echium simplex (like a white E. wildprettii)
> Fecha: viernes 18 de julio de 1997 2:46
> 
> >From: Peter K Worsley <worsley@silcom.com>
> >Subject: Re: echium(pride of Madera)help
> >Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> >Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:07:48 -0700
> >
> > I have Echium growing semi wild over my hillsides and it self seeds
easily.
> > Too much so because it pops up everywhere with nothing but natural rain
> > fall. I think the birds help it travel. Also some seeds may have
survived
> > my compost heap and have come up where I have spread the decomposed
> > material.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> Ok, now that we're back onto Echiums again, perhaps its time to ask:
> 
> Does anyone grow Echium simplex?  I saw a photo of this plant in
> Heidi Gildemeister's Mediterranean Gardening, showing a very E.
> wildprettii looking habit but with white flowers.  Anyone know of a
> source for seed?
> 
Sean. The big greyish bush with foliage in long-leaved rosettes that is
grown all round the Med is always meant to be E. fastuosum. But it is
tremendously variable from seed, some plants with trunks as thick as your
arm,  some bushes straggling some round and tidy, some with magnificent
blue spikes of flowers in the Spring others drab. But they root easily by
spring cuttings and we have a  very good clone from Mdme Dental of Nice who
has all kinds of goodies in her nursery. This clone is so dense you can
hardly get an arm into it, hemispherical 5ft x 5ft, fat upright spikes of
electric blue  flowers, followed by the still attractive dead heads. It
needs little watering , will live on rocks at the shore-line. What more can
you have?
	You agree Sean?         					Hugo
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