verbascum - A Selection

An award winning variety

Verbascum 'Honey Dijon' is a captivating perennial that stands out with its warm-hued flowers and tall, elegant flower spikes. This particular cultivar infuses a gentle, romantic charm into garden borders and gravel landscapes, thanks to its unique combination of vintage colors and striking architectural presence. The blooms, which range from soft caramel and honey-yellow to apricot, are adorned with a delicate mauve blush at their centers, creating a visually appealing contrast that draws the

Verbascum x hybrida 'Southern Charm' offers a stunning display of tall spikes adorned with pastel-colored flowers in shades of apricot, dusky pink, cream, and lavender-pink. This versatile plant thrives in various garden settings, including bedding, herbaceous borders, and containers, providing vibrant color throughout the growing season. With its elegant blooms and robust growth, it also makes a superb choice for cut flowers, enhancing both your garden and floral arrangements.Delivered as

A compact, semi-evergreen perennial with pale yellow flowers with m

A tall, spire-like, pink, summer flowering perennial

Spires of papery purple blooms

Semi-evergreen summer flowering perennial with yellow flowers

Verbascum, 'Lavender Lass' is a tidy and compact variety which is ideal for adding vertical interest to the front of cottage garden borders. The elegant violet blooms have a dark eye and look particularly effective grown on mass where they will burst into colour from June to August, creating a beautiful display and attracting lots of pollinating insects. This pretty hardy perennial will also make a wonderful cut flower! Height and spread: 30cm (12).

Compact, but full of large flowers

Southern Charm' is a ready-to-grow plant! They are hand-picked from the nursery for their stunning garden display. They also make wonderful cut flowers! We send them to you green and ahead of flowering (though some varieties may show a few blooms). This implies that the plants will establish themselves quickly. Furthermore, their energy will be spent on producing better roots. This results in more flowers throughout the season. The long spikes of these 1 in. flowers in apricot, dusky pink,

A stunning plant for the back of borders, you will see tall erect spikes covered in large 4cm pure white flowers. Seldom requiring support these tall flowers will bloom from June to August, perfect for cottage and wildlife gardens. Sow April to May at 20-30C (68-86F) on the surface of a good free-draining, damp seed compost. Cover with a fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Place in a propagator or seal container inside a polythene bag until after germination which usually takes 14-30

This is a lovely plant for the early to mid-summer, sporting flowers which are a rare rich purple

Tall, colourful and stately, a wonderful accent plant

Verbascum phlomoides 'Snow Maiden' is a short-lived variety but is guaranteed to create a striking display in your cottage and wildlife gardens! This imposing perennial requires very little maintenance and boasts towering, spiked stems of beautiful white blooms throughout the summer, before dying back and self-seeding. Mullein is adored by garden pollinators and is ideal for filling gaps in summer borders, coping well in poor soils where many other varieties wouldn't. This variety also makes a

A compact, short-lived, semi-evergreen perennial with spires of pale yellow flow

Sometimes grown as a biennial or short-lived perennial, Verbascum phlomoides 'Banana Custard' is a striking plant for the back of the border. From June to August, tall yellow flower spikes stand above low rosettes of grey-green leaves. Pollinating insects adore this stunning architectural plant, which is treasured for its summer blooms. Allow it to self-seed after flowering to assure a fresh crop of Mullein plants in the spring of the following year. Height: 180cm (71). Spread: 60cm (24).