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, ...

Tall, elegant and surprisingly easy to grow, Verbascum ‘Clementine’ is a striking perennial with soft yellow-peach petals and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

These colourful biennials are loved by gardeners – and bees and caterpillars – for their ability to thrive and surprise The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy ...

I've tried to grow about 50 kinds of verbascum. Most have died. The word on the horticultural street is that many – like Verbascum 'Helen Johnson' and V. 'Jackie' – die in the bag on the way home, ...