Plant ID

[Placido]

Let's hope that's the end of the panic and humanity has been saved - phew, a close run thing !!
Glad the bees are appreciative.

[Willpar]

I have managed to get a video of the echium by turning the camera around. Did not know I could do that. But here it is a full length video of the plant. Flowers are nearing their end now.

[Placido]

The triffid seems a bit prone to a high wind, Willpar ?? You'll need a telegraph pole to stake it.
Very impressive - the seeds will scatter near and far (especially far).

[Jacksparrow]

In my daily paper today was a photo of a person's Echium like willpars. It was over 14 feet tall

[Willpar]

They can get rather large.

[Placido]

They can get rather large.

The understatement of the year !!
Presumably it'll be bigger next year when it's really settled in.

[Willpar]

Will die off now placi, and will have to be dug up.

[Placido]

Remember your PPE whilst digging it up, Willpar

[Willpar]

The tall echium has been cut down.
this is my echium blue plants.

[Placido]

Cut down ?!?!?!? Oh deary deary moi !!
Was it vandalism, Willpar, or enough is enough ??
Will it spring again, next Spring again, bigger and better - I do hope so. It's like losing a friend