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Help please to identify plant, it’s been growing overwinter and has no flowers

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2022
    Possibly an Echium pininana?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It has flower buds, it will flower this year, set seed then die.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • greatnorthernexoticgreatnorthernexotic Posts: 119
    Second vote for echium. Could flower this year or next.
    Growing tropical and desert plants outdoors in West Yorkshire
    INSTAGRAM/ YOUTUBE
  • ORKSWIRLORKSWIRL Posts: 4
    is there any possibility that its avocado?
  • ORKSWIRLORKSWIRL Posts: 4
    thanks for the assistance
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It will flower this year, I can see the buds in it.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ORKSWIRLORKSWIRL Posts: 4
    Thanks Lyn
  • The Bird LadyThe Bird Lady Posts: 225
    The bees will go mad for the flowers.  Watch out when it dies back, you'll need gloves to handle the leaves, they have little needles.  Don't be surprised if you get more next year, they are very good at re-seeding themsleves.  I'm guessing one of your neighbours has probably had one.  We've grown them every year, we used to have to cover them up during winter but they seem to get through without that these days (milder winters).  
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