Echium not doing well

bencharlesrowe

We have an Echium that we planted last year and it's taken a beating thanks to the snow.

It is mushy in the top but there is some new leaf growth at the sides.

Trying to work out if it is a lost cause. Any thoughts?

Mark56

Lots of folks on here lost their Echium plants because of the cold snaps, if there's green, there's hope - yours look a lot healthier than most I have seen on here recently

Dovefromabove

I'm with Mark ... I've seen much worse ....... Fingers Crossed!  

bencharlesrowe

Fingers crossed then! It' s the gunky middle that worries me. Would cutting the top of be madness?

Hostafan1

it looks to me like there are tiny side shoots coming. I'd leave well alone for a while longer.

Lyn

Any hope for mine😀😀

Kaymay

Oh Lyn, they look even worse than mine

Lyn

There are no little seedlings, whether some will shoot from last years plants I don’t know. They take three years to flower, this would have been the flowering year. 

Kaymay

So disappointing for you and know how you feel. Although mine are all well dead , I did dig up some seedlings last year and have over wintered them but will still have to wait until next year until flowering. 

Hostafan1

Mine are the same as yours Lyn. 

Lyn

Well, we really should learn what not to grow, and plants that need a hot dry climate isn’t suitable for here, they grow wild in the west of Cornwall, but they’ve probably lost theirs this year as they had worse weather than us.

I remember Monty once saying, years ago, that you shouldn’t  bring a plant out of its own country, as he digs up his banana plants!