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Echium vulgare

Common name: Viper's bugloss

Bountiful and pollinator-friendly British native

-20°C and below

Good Cut Flowers

Good for Pollinators

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An exciting native beauty which continues the current trend of planting more naturally within your managed garden spaces as well as in meadows and wildlife areas. Echium vulgare produces rosettes of glaucous, slender, bristly foliage from March to November. In late spring tall spikes, extending up to 75cm, burst with tissue-like petals in violet blue and pink tones, lasting through to late summer. These bicoloured beauties are open faced and readily accessible to pollinators who love the nectar from these rich, bell-shaped flowers. Ideal for wildlife gardens and equally at home in a rockery, container or herbaceous border. You can even cut some stems for a vase or bouquet. Echium vulgare is a naturalising native which is ideally suited to dry, sunny parts of the garden. It prefers a well-drained soil of any type and a spot in full sun of any aspect. A fully hardy, herbaceous biennial which will spread up to 50cm.

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Latin Name	Echium vulgare
Common Name	Viper's bugloss
Hardiness	H7 (-20°C and below)
Colour	Blue
Format	Young Plants
Position	Full-Sun
Foliage	Deciduous
Height in Maturity (m)	0.75 m
Spread in Maturity (m)	0.50
Soil Conditions	Chalk Clay Loam Sand
Soil Acidity	Acid Alkaline Neutral
Aspect	East-facing, North-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Drought Tolerant	Yes
Good for pots	Yes
Good for Rockeries	Yes
Good for wildlife	Yes
Good for pollinators	Yes
Good for cutting	Yes