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Wed, Nov 14, 07 at 22:23
| I have a hankering to add verbascum to my garden next year. I remember picture(s) posted by others on this forum of their verbascums and wanted to know if they were an annual or a perennial in their gardens? T+M have one that will bloom the same year so I thought that would be a good option for me. Has anyone started them from seed and what luck did you have?..savona |
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| Hi Savona - I have started Verbascum chaixii "alba", V. phoeniceum, and V. nigrum with good success and they have all turned out to be excellent garden plants. Of course, good old V. thapsus would probably also be easy to start... |
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- Posted by crazy_gardener ~Z2b~ AB Canada (My Page) on Thu, Nov 15, 07 at 0:38
| I have these in my zone 2 garden, all perennials, all wintersowed. Verbascum chaixii 'Album' Verbascum chaixii Verbascum nigrum Verbascum phoeniceum 'Mixed' and Verbascum thapsus Great Mullein - biennial Sharon |
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| I've got Verbascum phoeniceum 'Mixed' Verbascum hybridum 'Banana Custard' (T&M seed) Both were wintersowed and both have self seeded. My preference is the 'Banana Custard' for richness in colour. Shauna |
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| Thank you for the replies everyone.Now I feel confident to add more to my shopping cart. It was the Banana Custard that really made me want want want :-)..savona |
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- Posted by northspruce z3a MB CDA (My Page) on Thu, Nov 15, 07 at 20:22
| Verbascum nigrum is totally bulletproof and actually pretty rampant (perennial and seedy) for me. I planted it in hot, unwatered builder's fill (cruddy soil) beside my work and it does great. Customers ask about it all the time. I get some complaints about the bees though. |
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| When i've sent verbascum seeds to people, i give them a warning: Deadhead!!!! Otherwise you'll be absolutely inundated with verbascums. They're a mixed blessing, imo. This summer i saved a few seed heads and have shaken the seeds out along our road. If they grow (they probably won't because i want them to! LOL), it will be gorgeous! |
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