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, ...

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 ...

VERBASCUM OLYMPICUM is a mullein, related to (and very like) our native Aaron's rod. It is endemic to the Olympus mountains in Turkey. In its second year from seed it will send up a flowering spike up ...