Viper's Bugloss

Vipers Bugloss (Echium) - Handsome plants of the Forget-me-not-order, the finer kinds of which, though superb in the open gardens of S. Europe, are too tender for our gardens. E. plantagineum is one of the handsomest of the annual or biennial species. Its showy flowers, of rich purplish-violet, are in long slender wreaths that rise erect from a tuft of broad leaves. It is handsomer than our indigenous species, E. pustulatum and E. vilgare. E. rubrum is a scarce and handsome species, its habit is similar to those above mentioned, but its color is a reddish-violet, similar to the attractive E. creticum. They are all showy and of the simplest culture. The seeds should be sown in ordinary garden soil, either in spring for the current years flowering, or late in autumn for flowering in early summer. Our native E. vulgare is good in certain positions; its long racemes of blue flowers are handsomer than those of the Italian Anchusa. Against a hot wall, where nothing else would grow, Dr Acland, of the Grammar School, Colchester, planted some, and they gave a beautiful bloom. It is valuable for such positions, particularly on hot gravelly or chalky soils.

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