Tower of Jewels 25 Red Bugloss Flower Seeds, Maroon and Ruby Red Blooms

DESCRIPTION:

NAME: Tower of Jewels

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Red Bugloss / Tenerife Bugloss / Mount Teide Bugloss / Wilpret’s Bugloss

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Echium Wildpretii / Echium Bourgaenum

COLOR: Maroon, Cranberry, Ruby Red

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost

BLOOM TIME: Summer

HARDINESS ZONE: 9 – 11

PLANT HEIGHT: 5 – 10′

PLANT SPACING: 36 – 48″

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average – Dry

QUANTITY: 25 Seeds

OTHER: This rare stunning beauty comes from Tenerife Island, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco. Both the foliage & the incredible flower spikes are lovely & impressive! Their conical towers can reach heights of 6 – 8’ tall, covered top to bottom with hundreds of blooms. The funnel shaped flowers are high in nectar, & will attract bees, butterflies, & HUMMINGBIRDS. Echium Wildpretii has won a Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit, & is my new favorite plant!

They are a biennial, meaning they will flower in their second year, but the large 2-3’ wide basal rosettes of silvery foliage you will enjoy in their first year are lovely enough that you would still want to plant them even if you didn’t know the best was yet to come. Lol. And more good news – they will reseed themselves, so once established, you will be able to enjoy flowers every year. The plants are deer resistant, tolerate coastal conditions, sandy or rocky soils, dry spells, high temperatures, & even temperatures as low as 25*F.

* We also have Blue Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) seeds in our store that you won’t want to miss! *

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Seedville Tower of Jewels 25 Red Bugloss Flower Seeds, Maroon and Ruby Red Blooms

• Produces stunning maroon, cranberry, and ruby red flowers
• Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds with high nectar content
• Grows to a height of 5 to 10 feet with impressive conical flower spikes
• Ideal for hardiness zones 9 to 11
• Blooms in summer, providing vibrant color to gardens
• Plant seeds outdoors after frost or indoors weeks before the last frost
• Requires full sun and prefers average to dry soil conditions
• Biennial plant that flowers in its second year, with beautiful silvery foliage in the first year
• Reseeds itself for continuous blooms year after year
• Deer resistant and tolerant of coastal conditions, sandy or rocky soils, and high temperatures
• Can withstand temperatures as low as 25°F