Echium fastuosum

This is a bush form of Echium and like the cousin Echium pininana it has blue flowers, unlike it's cousin it will have many small flower spikes on one plant each one getting up to 60cm tall when mature. This bush Echium has blue-green leaves that add to the character of the plant when not in flower. This is a perennial and also is know as Echium candicans. Protect from severe frost.