Echium plantagineum
"Blue Bedder"

Goof proof, bee-loved and blue, this bountiful bloomer from the Mediterranean is deer resistant, too! Fast growing into an impressive mound 20” x 20” (in rich soil) of blue, cup-shaped blooms with pink buds, it blooms for months! Easy, resilient and not fussy about soil, it’s useful in those mysterious spots where everything else dies! Readily self-sows. Pretty combined with Antirrhinum ‘Double Azalea Apricot’.