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Echium wildpretii [EK-ee-um, wild-PRET-ee-eye] is a biennial flowering plant with tall rosettes of leaves and colorful inflorescences. This Echium plant is native to the Canary Islands, where it thrives in
Boraginaceae [boh-raj-i-nay’-see- ee] – The Borage family is a group of widely distributed plants often grown as potted herbs.
Some are grown for their ornamental foliage and sometimes for their small and often bright flowers.
Most are herbs, a few are woody, some herbaceous types bear the lots of small flowers on one side of a short spike, which, at first rolled up, straightens as the flowers develop.
Those grown for ornamental value include:
Echium wildpretii [EK-ee-um, wild-PRET-ee-eye] is a biennial flowering plant with tall rosettes of leaves and colorful inflorescences. This Echium plant is native to the Canary Islands, where it thrives in
Cynoglossum amabile [SIGH-no-gloss-um, a-MAH-bih-lee] are charming blue flowers painting the garden in eye-catching color. Cynoglossum is part of the Boraginaceae family along with the Baby blue Eyes flower (Nemophila) and
Lithodora diffusa [li-tho-do-ra] belongs to the Boraginaceae family of flowering plants and is native to the southwestern regions of Europe including southern Greece, Algeria and Turkey and Northwestern France. The
The conical flower spikes of the Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) are something straight of a fairy tale. It’s easy to imagine the subshrubs planted in a magical garden where
The Echium plant [ECH-ee-um] has around 70 different species and subspecies. The flowering plant belongs to the family Boraginaceae which includes: Heliotropium arborescens Brunnera macrophylla – Siberian bugloss Nemophila Menziesii –
Pulmonaria angustifolia [pul-muh-NARE-ee-ah, an-gus-tee-FOH-lee-uh] is a low-growing perennial plant and member of the pulmonaria genus. It belongs to the Boraginaceae family, which includes over 2,000 known species. The plant is
Heliotropium arborescens [hee-lee-oh-TROH-pee] [ar-bo-RES-senz] is a species of flowering plants from the family Boraginaceae along with the Nemophila baby blue eyes flower and Echium Pride of Madeira. It is native
Native to Oregon and California, the Baby Blue Eye flower the common name for Nemophila Menziesii is a charming plant with lovely cornflower blue cup shaped flowers. It can grow
The Forget Me Not flower, by any other name would not be so sweet to gardeners, nor would the other numerous little blue forget me not flowers affectionately given the
The Virginia Bluebells, a spring ephemeral, is one of the most delightful flowers in the early Spring gardens from the family boraginaceae. This genus of low-growing herbaceous perennial plants that’s