Echium pininana

A stunning and much sought after plant. With striking upright stems and enormous lance-shaped, roughly silver-hairy leaves up to 1m in length. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial with . Each rosette produces a flower panicle up to 4m long of funnel-shaped blue flowers with large bracts in mid and late summer. Loved by Bees and other pollinators. Height 5m Spread Full Sun and free draining soil.