These plants can be deceiving in their nursery pots. They often don’t look like much. But bring one home, give it a few years to settle in, and it will bloom all over in the nooks and crannies of your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...