Ironically, I didn’t collect this flower essence on the island - I collected it north of San Francisco, years later. I discovered it in the Bay area one spring and fell totally in love all over again. It grows in tall cones along the roads in massive towers of blue and purple that almost have a human quality. It has that exquisite magical quality that the Canary Islands had - it makes absolute sense that it’s native to such fantasy-like islands.>

Pride of Madeira reseeds freely and so it’s easy to get babies if you have a friend with mature plants. Plants also can be started from cuttings. They’ll require occasional water during the first summer in order to get established, but after that need little or no care.

https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/pride-of-madeira/