Taking part this weekend in the annual Telegraph Hill Open Gardens as usual. I'm making a point of directing visitors to have a look at the Echium wildpretii in next door's front garden. It's pulsating with flowers (and bees).

 I'm taking some of the credit because it self-seeded from one I grew in my front garden a number of years ago! These giant Echiums are triennial. They flower in their third year of growth then die but they seed copiously after flowering.