Knowing how to grow common mullein – from seed, cuttings and plant divisions – will not only boost your plot’s wildlife and pollinator appeal but add valuable height, structure and long-lasting color ...

A gorgeous flower has started blooming in the garden this week. It is a verbascum hybrid called ‘Wedding Candles’ that we grew from seed last year. Verbascums are also known as mulleins. That’s right, ...

Soft peach but with strong copper highlights and a central purple stain, 'Helen Johnson' is an astonishingly sumptuous Verbascum . Its matching purple filaments and brick-orange anthers echo the ...

Dusty defiance: Vita Sackville-West wrote that her verbascums looked as though "a colony of tiny buff butterflies had settled all over them" WHEN a plant sheds its common name and becomes known only ...

It is wonderful to see our enthusiastic gardeners getting more and more adventurous as the years go by. Commercial seed sellers have an obvious role to play in this, by daring to introduce an ...

Many gardeners are looking to add height to a part of their garden, whether that be in a stand of taller species like salvias or delphiniums, or as an individual architectural element. One outstanding ...

Garden forms of Verbascum (mullein) are showy plants, with flower spikes that are imposing in cut flower arrangements. Dear Helen: A visiting relative noticed that some of my shrubs are not doing well ...

(1) Two sequential cohorts of mullein (Verbascum thapsus) were studied in each of six North Carolina sites in order to assess the phenotypic and genetic responses of the populations to successional ...

Verbascum tuna-ekimii Karavelioğlları, Duran & Hamzaoğlu sp. nova (sect. Bothrosperma) is described from E Anatolia in Turkey. It is related to and compared with V. laetum, from which it mainly ...

Dusty defiance: Vita Sackville-West wrote that her verbascums looked as though "a colony of tiny buff butterflies had settled all over them" WHEN a plant sheds its common name and becomes known only ...