Vipers Bugloss
Echium vulgare
Full description
Vipers Bugloss is a biennial plant, growing to a height and spread of 50-120 cm with 30-40 flowers on each stem from June to late August. The flowers are a beautiful violet blue in colour flecked dark pink with long red stamens.
It thrives on chalky or sandy soil and open sites, but could be included in a dry herbaceous border. Vipers Bugloss should not be cut down until after seed set in the late summer. Once established it is happy to be left on its own to self-propagate.
Bees and butterflies love it.