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 ...

When verbascum varieties (mulleins) are at their best in summer, they form incredible spires of yellow, peach, pink, or white. Resembling huge candelabras of flowers, these architectural beauties ...

One of the showiest flowers at this time of year is the verbascum, also known as mullein. You can’t have missed the ruffians of the clan, Verbascum thapsus, with 6-foot-tall candelabras of yellow that ...

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 ...

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 ...