25 TOWER OF JEWELS Red Bugloss Echium Wildpretii Ruby Hummingbird Flower Seeds

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, meani