Echium candicans is a perennial herb native to the Madeira Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is characterised by its many spikes of beautiful blue flowers and is known to attract many bees. They started blooming about a week ago, just as they do every year. The flowers are a beautiful blue, and provided it isn’t raining, bees and bumblebees flit about from early morning until dusk, sipping their nectar. They often sprout from self-sown seeds; I transplant these seedlings into pots or collect the seeds to sow, and they have been blooming somewhere in the garden for about ten years now.
エキウムカンディカンスは大西洋にあるマデイラ諸島原産の多年草です。美しい青い花をたくさんつける花穂が特徴で、多くのハナバチを呼び寄せることでも知られています。今年も一週間ほど前から咲き始めました。美しいブルーの花で、雨でなければ朝早くから夕暮れ迄、ミツバチやハナバチたちが飛び回って蜜を吸っています。こぼれ種で発芽することもよくあり、それを鉢上げしたり、種を集めて蒔いたりして、10年ほど庭のどこかで咲き続けています。






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