Echium pininana 'Snow Tower' syn. Echium pininana 'Alba', Echium pininana alba
Tower of Jewels 'Snow Tower'
Echium pininana alba, also known as Echium 'Snow Tower' is a rare white form of the Tree Echium. A hardy biennial that grows a large rosette of silver-grey leaves in the first year, and a tall white flower spike up to 5m high in the second year. It requires a winter temperature of 7 - 10C.
Contributed by @inlove
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
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Light and free draining
Common name
Tower of Jewels 'Snow Tower'
Latin name
Echium pininana 'Snow Tower' syn. Echium pininana 'Alba', Echium pininana alba
type
Biennial
family
Boraginaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.50 M
5.00 M
Echium pininana 'Snow Tower' syn. Echium pininana 'Alba', Echium pininana alba
Echium pininana alba, also known as Echium 'Snow Tower' is a rare white form of the Tree Echium. A hardy biennial that grows a large rosette of silver-grey leaves in the first year, and a tall white flower spike up to 5m high in the second year. It requires a winter temperature of 7 - 10C.
Flowering Season
From Early Summer TO Late Summer
Flowers appear on established plants from early summer through to late summer.
Planting Outdoors Spring
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Present pot grown young plants to their flowering site in early spring when temperatures exceed 10C.
Propogation by seed
From Early Spring TO Early 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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