Topic: Echium.

[grannyjanny]

After listening to GQT at the week-end I wondered if anyone has any echium pinnata seeds to swap, ask & I might have it.
Janet

[grannyjanny]

This could be called echium pininana.
Janet

[saddad]

Are you reading my mail? I just got three seperate packets of Echiums from Jungle seeds in the post yesterday.... they are desperately tender and huge upto 10-12'... I'm going to be growing them in a dustbin in the big greenhouse to put out next May....  ;D The one I've had in the garden for two years survived but never flowered... (it's dieing now but is biennial..)

[grannyjanny]

Heck. I must be getting physic 8) 8) 8). Do you have the pininana or pinnata, it's the 12' one. Pretty please. I will be sending your cheque today & could add it on if I haven't got anything to swap ;).
Janet

[saddad]

Have a look at www.jungleseeds.co.uk ...
I got 622 Echium Pininana
2296 Echium "Pink Fountain"
1276 Echium Wildpretti... "Tower of Jewels" There are ten seeds in a packet.. aat @£2.50 once I've paid the P+P..

Would you like a couple of each or just 3-4 of the Pininana?

 :)

[grannyjanny]

I am confused now after looking & reading about them. It said on GQT that they don't need much room as they are vertical plants. I wanted to encourage the bees & have seen echiums on GW in AT day but pininana needs room :-\ , what do you think?
Janet

[saddad]

The pininana I've had in the garden has kept itself to itself but needs about 2-3' square as the leaves are very large...  :-X

[grannyjanny]

We can manage that ;). If you can spare them a couple of each that would be wonderful.
Can you PM with how much I owe you in total please. You are a star yet again. Thanks.
Janet

[Robert_Brenchley]

How do you keep it alive over winter?

[saddad]

I built a mini greenhouse over it from old windows....  ;D

[ACE]

Normally I could help out, but as some of you know I was badly hit by frosts last winter. Mine self seed like weeds, so as usual last autumn I strimmed out all the patches where I did not want them. Then the dreaded prolonged frost came for the first time in over 15 years and wiped them all out apart from 3 feeble little plants which I doubt will not flower this year.

Luckily I forgot to plant the seeds from a white sport, so they are now growing in the poly and half will go out later this summer, and hopefully we will be back to normal next year.

[grannyjanny]

Sorry you lost your plants Ace it would have been lovely to have a seedling. Everyone on this site is very kind.
Janet

[sunloving]

Hi
Just wondered if you managed to get seeds.
If not i have a spare seedling (its about 5inches high) that i could send you.
I got the seeds from ebay have a check there. They came attached to the flowers and you just planted the lot. Got good germination hence a spare seedling or two.
Let me know