another identity question

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• Fran IOM Posts: 2,872

  May 2019

  To me it looks like an Echium but I could be quite wrong so I am bumping up your thread so someone else can help. 

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  May 2019

  I think Fran may be right. Was it at Brodick Castle by any chance ?

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  May 2019 edited May 2019

  Isle of Arran/West coast Scotland gardens Echium's do very well.
  Probably Echium pininana.
  
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=echium+pininana&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit-uawzpviAhWBr3EKHQb7DLoQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  Even at Inverewe gardens...same latitude as Moscow.
  
  https://twitter.com/InvereweGarden/status/890099390194601984
  
  https://echiumworld.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/echium-pininana-grown-in-scotland/
  
  Achnamore on Gigha...
  
  https://plantnetwork.org/news/achamore-gardens/
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Bobby Spray Posts: 21

  May 2019

  Thanks for the help. AnniD no it wasn't brodick castle although there are some fantastic tropical gardens there. It was growing in a pub garden in Lamlash. Definitely looks like Echium.
  

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