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
This could be called echium pininana.
Janet
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..)
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
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?
:)
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
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
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
How do you keep it alive over winter?
I built a mini greenhouse over it from old windows.... ;D
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.
Sorry you lost your plants Ace it would have been lovely to have a seedling. Everyone on this site is very kind.
Janet
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