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Echium not doing well

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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    If it's any consolation Lyn we also lost one of ours - but luckily still have 3 or 4 others.  We are milder I agree and the plants are alongside a wall sheltering them from the north and easterly winds.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s good GD, don’t think I’ll grow them again. Are they a three year cycle for you? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    I know they aren't very hardy in certain areas, but I was surprised to lose one this winter. They are a two year cycle for us - they sprout up and grow a foot or two in the first year and then shoot up, flower and die off in the second year.  They are self seeders here.
  • IgrowfromseedIgrowfromseed Posts: 284
    Mine were looking good on the 10th Feb this year



    By the 26th March..........




    I've still got an alive one at the front of the house, must have had extra protection from close proximity to the house wall.
  • IgrowfromseedIgrowfromseed Posts: 284
    Here's mine from the front of the house that survived the recent blast from the east.


  • bencharlesrowebencharlesrowe Posts: 7
    edited April 2018
    Thanks all for looking. Latest update of plant.

    There are new green shots but the top is still hollow and woodlice are in there. Anything I should be doing to help!?

  • bencharlesrowebencharlesrowe Posts: 7


    With woodies.
  • IgrowfromseedIgrowfromseed Posts: 284
    I have one echium coming back from the dead with new shoots along the stem.


    Two others that I've dug up have juicy roots with one showing a few fine feeder roots


    The cut stems looks like this


    I've dug them back in the ground. Any chance they will re-sprout new growth?
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