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    VERBASCUM
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    VERBASCUM

    Commonly known as Mullein

    All Flower MAY-JUN

    Statuesque wildlife plants with a long history of use as a herbal remedy.

    Genus of 360 species, most of which are biennials, with a few annuals, perennials and subshrubs, some semi-evergreen or evergreen.

    They are found mainly on dry, stony hillsides, wasteland and in open woodland in Europe, northern Africa and western and central Asia.

    Natives are V. nigrum, dark mullein, uncommon and found on calcareous soils and V. thapsus, Aaron's rod, common on sunny banks and waste places.

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    • Good to know
      Wildlife plant - bees, butterflies and other insects
    • Pests & Diseases
      moth caterpillars, figwort weevil, powdery mildew.
    • Place of origin
      Garden origin.
    • Semi-evergreen
      Keeps some of its foliage all year, and will drop some leaves as well.
    • Striped, Veined or Multicoloured
    • Height
      45cm (18in)
    • Spread
      35cm (14in)
    • Herbaceous
      Early in the year, typically January till end of March, herbaceous plants might be supplied in 9cm pots to ensure timely despatch.
      Rosette-forming perennial
    • Alkaline / Chalk loving
      Poor well-drained soil
    • Full sun
    • Mature Size
      45cm (18in)
      		 Herbaceous - guide for size not form Hand Trowel
        35cm (14in)
      		  
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    VERBASCUM chaixii 'Album'
    White flowers with mauve centres
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'Cotswold Beauty'
    Mullein
    Pale apricot-pink with purple centre
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'Cotswold Queen'
    Soft yellow-brown with purple centre
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'Firedance'
    Fiery red
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'Helen Johnson'
    Saucer-shaped light pinkish-brown flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'June Johnson'
    Grey-green leaves and pale peachy-pink flowers with a purple eye
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
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    VERBASCUM 'Kynaston'
    Mullein
    White flowers with orange eye
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM 'Merlin'
    Pale purple-pink with a brown centre
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50 £10.80
    VERBASCUM olympicum
    Tall spikes of yellow flowers and grey woolly leaves. Monocarpic
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    VERBASCUM phoeniceum
    Shades of white, through pink to purple. Crinkly leaves
     
    1 to 1.5 Litre
    £13.50 £10.80
    VERBASCUM 'Pink Domino'
    Deep rose-pink flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50 £10.80

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    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
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    Improves vegetable, fruit and flower quality. Blood, Fish and Bone contains three major nutrients essential for strong and healthy growth.
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    £6.50
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    Wildflower Mini Meadow
    Creates a mini-meadow for attracting bees, butterflies and bugs to your garden. 200g sachet which will cover 3 square metres. Contains Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi.
    3m²
    £7.00
    10m²
    £15.50
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
    Q4 Pelleted Fertiliser
    A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
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    £13.00
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    4.5 kg
    £25.00
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