The highly endangered Azores Harebell is endemic of fresh cliffs and rocks on the Azores. Makes a small woody shrub with a broad trunk and large, beautiful pink bellflowers in summer. Grows easily in any well drained, humus rich and sandy soil. Shortly before flowering starts in summer plants will grow more slowly. As soon as temperatures decrease and air humidity rises in autumn they will restart growing. Sow on any humus rich, sandy soil, at 15°C to maximum 22°C in partial shade. Do not cover dust like seeds. Keep soil always slightly moist but not wet from beneath. Keep seedlings sunny, especially in winter. Will grow rapidly with fifth pair of leaves from autumn to spring and may gain flowering size within four years. For any partially shaded to sunny spot in summer and always sunny place in winter, keep frostfree. 40 seeds per package. Note: In accordance with national German laws (BNatSchG and BArtSchV) as well as European (Bern Convention) international conventions (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - CITES) we do not sell any wild collected material such as seeds from protected plants. Seeds from protected plants exclusively derives from horticulturally artificially propagated plants in Germany respectively Lebanon only, where plants have been taken into cultivation in the late 70ies and early 80ies of the last century. |
Azorina vidalii (Azores Harebell)70 (100)cm, Azores Harebell, makes spikes of large, pink (rarely white) bellflowers above evergreen, narrow, shiny, leathery leaves on rather thin branches which crown an erect, very broad and slightly succulent, gray-barked stem. Keep moist but not wet and always sunny throughout the year. Let soil fall slightly drier in winter, keep in a cool (yet frostfree) and sunny spot at a minimum of some 10°C. VII-IX. |
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