Echiums

Echium pininana (species spelling from "Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands"
by David and Zoe Bramwell) is listed in that book as a short-lived perennial
but is always a biennial for me.  It seeds readily but not too much, and so
I just pull out the ones that aren't in the places I desire.  It certainly
makes a "vertical statement" as it is only about two feet wide and ten feet
tall.  The flowers are not as showy as in E. fastuosum, being more widely
dispersed and a sort of washed out blue.

Cathy Ratner, Sunset zone 24, national zone 10.
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