Re: Echium vulgare
- Subject: Re: Echium vulgare
- From: J* S*
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:28:22 -0700 (PDT)
Pam:
I've grown it. I like it.
For a while, anyway; it starts to get a little trashy
looking at the end of it's cycle. Which is pretty
darn quick. It's electric blue flowers are quite
showy but they also attract quite a few bees.
I've seen it in some so-called butterfly-attracting
seed mixes. It doesn't attract any American
butterflies, though, and maybe only bees.
Also, I've grown it nicely as a cool-season flower;
I'm not sure how it will do as a summer bedding
flower.
Joe
--- p.k.peirce@att.net wrote:
> I just started some seeds of Echium vulgare 'Blue
> Bedder',the little European relative of the bigger
> Echiums that are native to the Madeira and the
> Canaries.
> Has anyone any experience with it? From what I can
> read,
> since I started the seed, it seems to be commonly
> used
> gardens in Great Britain and maybe in Europe, but is
>
> considered a troublesome weed in Australia,
> Washington
> state, and in much of Canada. Has anyone grown it?
> Has
> it been hard to control? (If you have grown it,
> please
> be sure to tell where you garden.) Thanks.
>
> Pam Peirce,
> San Francisco, CA
> USA USDA Zone 10
>
=====
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my garden always has something blooming
and birds galore
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