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Pride of Madeira in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Echium candicans syn. Echium fastuosum

 

Pride of Madeira

Blue or white funnel-shaped flowers with pink stamens open from pink buds. This perennial has a woody base with white, hairy lance-shaped leaves. After two years, less woody flowering stalks are produced clothed in rough leaves. It is much visited by bees and butterflies for its nectar.

 
plant Features
  • Pride of Madeira likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Pride of Madeira likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Pride of Madeira is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Pride of Madeira likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Pride of Madeira

Latin name

Echium candicans syn. Echium fastuosum

type

Perennial

family

Boraginaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Pride of Madeira likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Pride of Madeira is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Soil

    Pride of Madeira likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Pride of Madeira likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Pride of Madeira is 1.50meters x 1.50meters 1.50 M 1.50 M

Echium candicans syn. Echium fastuosum

Blue or white funnel-shaped flowers with pink stamens open from pink buds. This perennial has a woody base with white, hairy lance-shaped leaves. After two years, less woody flowering stalks are produced clothed in rough leaves. It is much visited by bees and butterflies for its nectar.


Flowering Season

From Early Summer TO Early Autumn

Flowers appear on established plants from early summer through to early autumn.

 

Planting Outdoors Spring

From Early Spring TO Early Spring

Present pot grown young plants to their flowering site in early spring when temperatures exceed 5-7C.

 

Propogation by seed

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Sow the seeds in flowering site in early spring or under glass in autumn, thinning out the seedlings in spring.

 
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