Name: VIPERS BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare)
SKU: H255
Price: 1.95 GBP
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VIPERS BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare)

Vipers Bugloss Seeds
A European wildflower, native in the UK on light and poor soils. Easy to grow and it self-seeds readily. Old medicinal herb used for headaches, fevers and nervous complaints and apparently to treat snake bites!
Bugloss would be an attractive plant to establish in a grass/Wildflower mixture for naturalisation. Howevere, because it is a biennial it might be difficult to establish except on a light rather sandy soil.
Height 30cm.
Hardy Biennial

Product Part No: H255

Pack size: 35 Seeds

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Price: £1.95

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When to Sow

Sow Plant Harvest

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Where to Sow

Sow Vipers Bugloss outside in spring and lightly cover with soil. May also be sown in August-September.

GROW
In any good garden soil, but it prefers soil which is light and well drained.
SITE
Full sun.
MEDICINAL.
An infusion of the dried leaves (28gms. to a pint of boiling water), taken in a wine glass several times a day is effective for headaches and the common cold. Because of the spotted stem it is thought to resemble a snake and the seeds are shaped like a snakes head, the plant was traditionally used to treat snake bites. Bugloss is a good Bee plant, like its relative Borage.

VIPERS BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare)