On 14/5/08 11:31, in article x_ydneKr964DIrfVnZ2dnUVZ8uGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Tonz"
<tony.dave1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Has anyone else had or got Echium Fastuosum candicans' Pride of Madeira'
> Any advice on planting and looking after in first few months , any
advice
> welcome
> Thanks in advance
>
They're not frost hardy and they need good drainage and a fair amount of
sun. Having said the latter, we have got some E.piniana through this
winter
by planting them in a sloping bit of the garden and where trees give a bit
of frost protection, together with the wall of a building. In the right
conditions as to climate, they grow on sandy tracks and out of stony
walls!
When we've tried them in the past, they were in a different part of the
garden and they've got too wet in winter and have rotted and/or been too
exposed to rain and cold winds and haven't flowered before summer's end,
so
we had no seedlings from them.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
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