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ECHIUM FASTUOSUM PRIDE OF MADEIRA
ECHIUM FASTUOSUM PRIDE OF MADEIRA
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ECHIUM FASTUOSUM PRIDE OF MADEIRA

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Echium fastuosum is big, bold and beautiful. It likes well drained soils and lots of sun and is quite happy where soils are dry and poor. By nature a coastal plant, the sandy, windy conditions of beach gardens are very much to its liking. It’s an excellent foliage plant as well as having gorgeous big purple-blue flower heads in spring. Great on banks surrounded by groundcovering, sun loving daisy flowers such as arctotis, gazanias and osteospermums. Use it against a cream wall for a Mediterranean effect. Or with the huge green leaves of Puka, Meryta sinclairii, a native tree which despite its lush good looks grows happily near the sea and in poor, dry soils.

Mingling a group of Echium fastuosum with lavenders and golden or orange leucospermums is another bright idea for sunny borders in coastal gardens. Try Echium fastuosum rising out of a groundcover of low growing rosemary varieties or next to Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’ for a dramatic contrast in form, or if knock-your-socks-off colour contrasts are your thing, use this Echium among the shiny yellow, drought tolerant, groundcovering shrub Coleonema ‘Sunset Gold’. It looks good among clipped shrubs too - a low hedge of the grey leafed, drought and wind tolerant coastal shrub Teucrium fruticans makes a classy foreground to Echium fastuosum.

Echium fastuosum
An evergreen perennial that flowers its heart out from spring to summer. It grows rapidly to form a multi-branched bush with grey-green leaves. Large, 30cm, intense blue flowers stand high above the foliage to make a brilliant garden display. Flowers intrigue up close, and the bush is fantastic viewed from afar.
Feature:

Picturesque all-summer-long, flowering, shrub-like perennial.

Uses: Gardens and patios.
Position: Sunny and well-drained.
Care: Remove spent flowers, prune lightly after flower to maintain bushiness. Will need protection from all but light frost in coller parts of Zone 9.

Height
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2 x 1 metre.