Description

Originating from Guernsey, Echium pininana alba, also known as Echium ‘Snow Tower’ is a rare white form of the Tree Echium. A hardy biennial, also classed as a half hardy perennial that grows a large rosette of silver-grey leaves in the first year, and a tall white flower spike up to 15ft high in the second year. The magnificent inflorescence with dense panicles of white flowers borne above branches of dusty linear leaves is produced from June to September. When in bloom, it is a magnet for hummingbirds, bees and butterflies, on a sunny day, as you approach the plant you can hear the hum of hundreds of bees feasting on the flowers.