Re: pruning Echium candicans (E. fastuosum)
- Subject: Re: pruning Echium candicans (E. fastuosum)
- From: &* G* <p*@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:22:33 -0700
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM, david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This species of Echium can actually live quite a bit
> longer than 5 to 7 years if it is grown hard,(not much
> water outside the fall/winter rainy season), and is
> too often planted in spots that it will outgrow.
There's a shopping center built in the 1990's here that has several of
these plants, planted the same time that center was built, with very
thick (as far as these plants go) trunks. They are being grown
hard,without supplemental water or rich soil and they still look fine.
However, they were planted in the wrong spot and have been pruned to
keep them "flat", which meant that they are opened up oddly.
One I had planted in my garden got hit badly by the freeze we had the
other winter and was killed back to old wood. This meant the plant
died, rather than resprouting.
