The roots of my very tall echiums are very short and shallow. I really don't know how the plants stands so proudly on such poor rooots. The soil is dry - against a wall, but still the echiums thrive and produce many small plants from dropping seeds during the summer.
They grow in our field nut, and what with the bees on almost every flower of the echium and the ivy on the wall attracts red admiral butterflies - often 6 or 7 at a time - it a a lovely area, full of activity.
Here's my biggest one, unfortunately in our winds they don't stand up to well, it blew onto the bank then continued up to great heights, not really a plant for windy gardens but as GD says, a bee on every flower and there are thousands of flowers on each plant.
starting from the centre of the photo then curling down then up behind the foxglove. The trunks are at least 4" across.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
They are really majestic aren't they Lyn, and your echium blends in so well with it's surroundings. It is a lovely garden for birds and insects. I will try to collect some seed from the echium this year - I was a little late collecting it last year.
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It's just like my whoppers, just dug one out, dead now flowered last year, its 20' tall.
roots crossed my mind Hosta.
I only grow Echium vulgare and something Dove gave me. I think some of the others wouldn't make it here.
But I hadn't noticed anything distinctive about the roots of these and would be interested to know what the big ones look like.
In the sticks near Peterborough
The roots of my very tall echiums are very short and shallow. I really don't know how the plants stands so proudly on such poor rooots. The soil is dry - against a wall, but still the echiums thrive and produce many small plants from dropping seeds during the summer.
amazing things.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They grow in our field nut, and what with the bees on almost every flower of the echium and the ivy on the wall attracts red admiral butterflies - often 6 or 7 at a time - it a a lovely area, full of activity.
Sounds wonderful GD
In the sticks near Peterborough
Here's my biggest one, unfortunately in our winds they don't stand up to well, it blew onto the bank then continued up to great heights, not really a plant for windy gardens but as GD says, a bee on every flower and there are thousands of flowers on each plant.
starting from the centre of the photo then curling down then up behind the foxglove. The trunks are at least 4" across.
They are really majestic aren't they Lyn, and your echium blends in so well with it's surroundings. It is a lovely garden for birds and insects. I will try to collect some seed from the echium this year - I was a little late collecting it last year.