Echium Vulgare – RARE UK Native Wildflower – HUGE 5 litre pot

Echium Vulgare — known as viper’s bugloss  or Blueweed was originally used to treat snake bites — It is a uk native and is a must-have plant for pollinators.

We have really done well with this lovely wildflower and have had great success producing truly enormous plants!  You will not find Echium sold as such large plants ANYWHERE in the UK – We are SO PROUD!

The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue, in a tall magnificent branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. The pollen is blue but the filaments of the stamens remain red, contrasting against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September and the bees adore it.

A wonderful specimen, tantamount to being somewhere exotic.

Once this flowers, the main plant will die, so we are selling this an an annual/biennial, it will self-sow throughout the garden if the flower spikes are not tidied away – so BE UNTIDY!

Grow in poor, free draining soil, we have most success in semi-shade although sun is the recommendation.