I always seem to take these photos when the light is rubbish, I must try to do them early or late! The echiums are magnificent this year, never seen them so good. I did take this photo a few days ago.
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- Michael House
- I run a vegetarian and vegan guest house in north Cornwall, with my long suffering husband Simon, who also has a tree and garden businees and often has to help here when he gets home! We love the contact with people the guest house brings and providing people with good food and a relaxing environment. I have just become vegan (Sept 2009) and am trying to link with lots of vegans to find out how to do it! I love making cards and painting, and felt making (hm, will have to rethink this to use soy and bamboo fibres eventaully) is my passion of the moment. Our animals are very important to us and tend to take over my blog. They have April 2009) been granted their own blog, in which Ted the cat will tell all the secrets we didn't wish to share and the dogs will talk about how lovely everything is!
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watercolour
pastel picture
fish rising to the surface, felted on embellisher machine
bag made from felted jumper
visitors
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what exactly is an echium? I have been trying to get the sapling sycamores that grow everywhere in my garden to grow in pots so that we can plant them in France! Lookng for things to grow that are easy and will survive neglect!
Echiums (Pininana)come originally from the Canary islands. They tend to be found in maritime situations in this country, there are loads on the Isle of Wight, and I would have thought they might do well where you are now. We have sent guests off with them to places around the country and they have grwon in eg. Southampton area and further north. They are not frost tolerant, we have lost some to frost, but they have survived some minor frosts. They are neglect tolerant! We have a forest of them at the back of the house, see other blog! they might grow in France, no idea really, worth a try. I think they are fantastic, a talking point, bees love them, they dance in the wind and are spectaular.
seed often sold on eBay. I culd send you some, but not sure I have ever seen the seeds!
they are related to borage
They are biennial or even triennials. Once they have flowered they die.
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