Nach ein paar Jahren des Versuchens und vielen Fehlschlägen habe ich endlich Echien in meinem Garten. Die Mühe lohnt sich.
Von: Demongeeks8
Nach ein paar Jahren des Versuchens und vielen Fehlschlägen habe ich endlich Echien in meinem Garten. Die Mühe lohnt sich.
Von: Demongeeks8
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Wow, they are delicious! Three cheers for your efforts
Fantastic!
Congrats! You’ve inspired me to try again ☺️
Holy moly! Now you’ve made me want some! 😂 amazing! 👏🏾
This is why i love this group, never seen this plant before thanks for sharing
They grow wild in my garden. I have to regularly take out shoots or they would take over.
I have four in flower at the moment and they’re magnificent.
Fantastic! I tried and failed. Did you protect them over winter?
That is the absolute dream for me, next year will be my year!
Did you plant the seeds directly in the ground or raise seedlings indoors first or what?
We had one of these appear in our garden a few years ago
Wooo! Magnificent!
Does it get covered with bees?
My neighbour has one growing in our communial garden it’s just come into flower and looks stunning!
Out of this world, congrats!
Awesome!
Funny thing is, we have loads of these in the garden and have to pull them up since they are killing everything else around them!
I’ve given up on Pinniana, I just stick to the small frost hardy ones now which are still gorgeous but no where near as stunning as these beasts! Congratulations!
WOW 😍 what part of the UK are you in? I’ve always wanted to grow these magical beauties 😍😍😍
I’ve only ever managed this once. It took three years to flower and was stunning. Congratulations
https://preview.redd.it/cmxpzhykk3zg1.jpeg?width=1639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcbfe6e5556dbe9eed07d54d7771bd2ff701a36a
nice
They’ve been self-seeding in our rental garden since we moved in five years ago – this is the first year one has survived the winter for us too!
https://preview.redd.it/jxk8rcsut3zg1.jpeg?width=1368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbdca8a8db001c17ee898f10f7fa7e03a062ccbb
Ah, so they’re related to Viper’s Bugloss, just found out. Here’s a page with some nice close-up images of the wild variety.
After reading about the spines, I am glad I did not touch the stems when I was photographing some…
[http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul08/bj-vipers.html](http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul08/bj-vipers.html)
They grow like weeds where my uncle lives in Falmouth, self-seeding everywhere and growing out of cracks in pavements.
Also, bear in mind they die after flowering, so you might want to collect some seeds (and also nurture any self-seeded ones).