Echium detail

Yet another flower in the garden, this one is a giant as shown in the extra. I think I only noticed these giant flowers two years ago and now they are every where. They are bee magnets! The extra shows the plant growing up into the tree canopy. The other extra is a visitor that I noticed this morning and which I was fascinated and repulsed by. I am arachnophobic and although only small they still freak me out!