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Blue steeple

hdrinkwaterhdrinkwater Posts: 4
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I have a giant blue steeple in my garden and understand that it is biennial. I planted it last year and this year it reached 10ft tall and flowered magnificently. I am being told that it won't flower again it will simply die. Can anyone confirm this?

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'm afraid so.
    It grows and flowers magnificently, sets seed and dies.
    Once its set seed for the next generation, its job is done and it dies.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • hdrinkwaterhdrinkwater Posts: 4
    Thank you Pete. I was afraid that this would be the case. However I have been given another one that I planted this year so fingers crossed for next and so on...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Save some seed and grow your own.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    @hdrinkwater Welcome to the forum.  :). I had one like yours a year or two ago and it was covered in bees. I didn't even get the pleasure for very long as gales at the time ripped the shallow roots out of the ground. The bees didn't give up though and stayed on it till the end even though it was lying on the ground. Would love to have had another but couldn't find one available. I didn't even have any self seeded plants. Maybe next year. As @Pete.8 said it would have died anyway. 
  • hdrinkwaterhdrinkwater Posts: 4
    Fran, Thank you. I bought mine at the RHS show but my neighbour got hers online. See if you can find it...
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Never seen these before @hdrinkwater

    https://hayloft.co.uk/product/echium-pininana/yp124h-in20?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjq7m3uKa6wIViK3tCh3mDACeEAQYAiABEgK6q_D_BwE
  • hdrinkwaterhdrinkwater Posts: 4
    Great for bees and quite a statement plant!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Two self seeded monsters here should flower next year, but it’s very hard to survive them through the winter.


    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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