Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Wednesday Vignette, when an echium seeds itself in a pathway...

What to do when an adorable little Echium wildpretii seeds itself out in the gravel pathway and your garden is going to be open on a tour?

Well, if your the owners of Floramagoria you make that echium a blue, slag-glass, collar.

With 400 people queued up to come through your garden in just 5 hours you don't want to leave anything to chance.

I hope this little guy survived the onslaught.

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14 comments:

  1. AlisonJuly 10, 2019

    Oh I hope he survived too! I've been to a few NPA gardens where people have covered plants like that in cages, which is a great deterrent. But maybe not in the Floramagoria stylebook.

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  2. Linda from Each Little WorldJuly 10, 2019

    That is an amazing idea. That blue may help people see it and avoid it.

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  3. Kris PetersonJuly 10, 2019

    I initially thought the question at the top of the post referred to your own garden, in which case the answer seemed obvious. I hope the Echium survived the tour - after a few weeks of work on our house, I'm beginning to wonder if any of my own garden will survive the horde tromping through it unscathed.

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  4. ksJuly 10, 2019

    I can report that I did not step on this Echium. Nor did I see it. Time to search the photos for evidence !

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    1. danger gardenJuly 10, 2019

      I’ll be interested to see if your camera saw it, even if you did not.

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  5. hansJuly 10, 2019

    Is this your garden? or are you helping someone else host 400(!) visitors?

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    1. danger gardenJuly 10, 2019

      Not my garden, and I was one of the tour goers.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 11, 2019

    Those guys are nothing if not imaginative.
    rickii

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  7. AnnJuly 13, 2019

    If he only could choose a different place to grow, it would be easier for him to survive! But I hope that people were that nice and noticed him. It's small but still noticeable! I have to tell you that I also have etchium in my garden but not only one variety of it. One of my favourite is the one with beautiful mix-coloured flowers (this one: https://gardenseedsmarket.com/patersons-curse-mixed-seeds-echium-plantagineum.html) . It grows annually so about 250 seeds are sufficient for my garden.

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