Vipers bugloss - 10 seeds

 10 x Viper's Bugloss Seeds

Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) is a striking and hardy plant known for its vibrant blue to purple flowers and spiky, lance-shaped leaves. It is a great choice for adding bold color to your garden and attracting pollinators such as bees and butterflies.

Unique Qualities:

• Vibrant blue to purple flowers
• Spiky, lance-shaped leaves
• Attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies
• Hardy and drought-tolerant

Growing Season: Viper's Bugloss thrives when planted in late spring or early summer, preferring full sun and well-drained soil. It is a resilient plant that can tolerate dry conditions and poor soil, making it suitable for low-maintenance and xeriscape gardens.

Time till it blooms : Viper's Bugloss typically begins to bloom approximately 60-80 days after planting

If you've grown borage you are probably noticing major similarities with this plant, based of the pictures, and rightfully so. Borage is essentially the taxonomic cousin of this plant. They are both in the boraginaceae family. This plant is an excellent self seeder and a great bee plant just as borage is. It is slightly sturdier and less prone to falling over than borage is. It has a tap root which allow it to maintain itself after a watering for a decent period of time (once established)

Suitable for a wilder patch of your garden, or a dedicated bed in your garden but has no place in a formal garden. Not ideal for shade but will still grow. Any annual plant which produces plenty of flowers, be they big or small, require as much sunlight as you can give them to flower well, shade = poor flowering, flowering stalks falling over. Generally speaking for temperatures below 27 degrees celcius, annual plants that are typically grown in summer will benefit from maximum sun exposure,be the plant californian poppies (Eschscholzia) , sunflowers or dahlias or chinese forget-me-not's. Plants like pansies, violas, poppies (papaver sp.), primroses and alpine forget-me-not, will suffer in the summer heat and thus should be planted in afternoon shade in summer or full sun in winter (where temperatures never rise above 23 degrees, but stay above zero), This applies to South africa, particularly Gauteng. I have seen alpine forget-me-not and poppies (papaver sp.) severely wilt and die here in Johannesburg in summer heat (as early as October)