Promiscuous Verbascum
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2016
- This video is about how I grow Verbascum bombyciferum, Verbascum chaexii 'Album' and Verbascum phlomoides 'Snow Maiden' and the multitude of hybrids that result from these promiscuous garden plants. Commonly called mullein.
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Your Verbascums are BEAUTIFUL :-) the flowers and the foliage on them are so gorgeous and the bombyciferum looks so wonderful with its velvety leaves and your garden is looking absolutely SENSATIONAL and so BEAUTIFUL Rachel :-) thanks so much for sharing the info on Verbascums and sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness from Waterford to Wexford and have a BRILLIANT weekend ahead XXXXX
Thanks a mil, Lyn. Wishes you all the best for the week ahead.
That sky blue one is absolutely beautiful.
Can't beat delphiniums
Where I live in Sweden, the wild verbascum is fantastic.
Lucky you. It is an amazing plant 😊
Everything looks so well-maintained... and one can easilly see all that is being done to keep it that way, from keeping the beds weed-free and well-edged and trimmed. Very nice..!
Thank you, John :)
The verbascum yellow flower is Mullein...a fabulous medicinal plant that grows wild here in the US. We make infusions, tinctures, salves and balms with it!
Very nice
such a beautiful garden....
Thank you.
Hello from PA, USA. Your garden is absolutely beautiful! I'm so glad I found you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Verbascum. This is the first year I'm growing them from seeds, so this gave me an idea of how to space them and what to do with them. Wishing you a successful garden year! Onto the next video!
Thank you very much for such kind words and you are very welcome to the channel. Expect the April garden tour this Sunday but, in the meantime, there are lots of other videos to watch. Have a great weekend!
Great video and what a beautiful garden your verbascum are magnificent well done and keep GROWING
Thank you
Everything looks soooo beautiful!!!
Ohh, I saw verbascum chaixii in a nursery recently, I had no idea it was properly perennial. I'll definitely pick one up the next time I'm around there, then.
A great choice.
Wow, what a gorgeous garden! Definitely a good person to take advise from, and you offered so much good advise, at that. Know the names, what the plants tend to do, when to plant them, and, of course, how they look. Thank you!
Thanks so much! Glad you liked the video.
I'm starting a collection of 'Chaixii' next year I want them dotted all over my front lawn 💚
Fabulous
Such an incredibly tidy and lush garden. Thank you for the heads up on Verbascum, I planted seeds for two varieties in trays. I hope they do as well in my garden... and I do love promiscuous plants.
Good luck!
Beautiful & pristine garden ! You must have good fertile soil there ... Happy growing...
The soil is good but stony. It benefited from well rotted horse manure this year.
I first encountered verbascum bom. as a 'weed' in my parents garden as a child. The beauty of its leaves kept it from being pulled out and composted. When it sent up its towering flower spike it won an ongoing place in their yard. A wonderful plant. Medicinal too.
How wonderful! It is super when weeds are actually beautiful plants :)
Someone else mentioned the medicinal values of mullein below but for me I have a kind of allergic reaction to the 'dust' on the underside of the leaves. But it would not stop me growing them !
+Gardening at Douentza The same constituents of plants that can cause a toxic reaction can, when prepared and used correctly, be beneficial and curative. Ex.; digitalis. I'm get a skin rash from rue herb, a complex medicinal, but I grow it anyway mostly for its ornamental value, though it does repel slugs, etc.. Oh, cats hate the smell!
The national plant of Lithuania - rue :)
nice video. What was the light blue flower spike plant in the video?
Near the beginning? Delphiniums.
Love your video's ,I grew Verbascom from seed last year and had only one spike ,this year it has been fantastic with multiple spikes,could you advise me please what to do after flowering , do I cut back or prune in some way. May be you might do a follow on video later in the year on the care of them as there dosen't seem to be much info out there.I appreciate your video's and thank you again.
Hi there, Dave. Your verbascum sounds wonderful. Which one is it? Usually they are monocarpic though so they die after flowering. The spike will wither and you will see that it is dead and can then pull it up, root and all. There are some perennial types too. In this case cut the spike back to the base after flowering and when its spike begins to look messy. Maybe this early video of mine is of use (excuse acoustics)...
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@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you so much for your reply ,I have Snow maiden, thanks for the advice look forward to watching your future video's. The first I saw of your video's was cleaning moss from tarmac drives,mine and all my friends now have clear drives thanks to you.
@@davehuxley6689 Haha. I am glad for that. By the way, Snow Maiden is one that dies after flowering but it should produce lots of seed.
I'm upninear the giants causeway, and I've got a vabascum pulverultem ... by accident. I dont recall planting one..
The birds or wind can deliver gifts sometimes!
Interesting video I have never heard of verbascums before. Couldnt you just make them perennial by cutting the flower spikes of before they even get to produce buds, like on blue poppys.
I think you mean the red or yellow meconopsis poppies. The blue ones are mostly perennial!
But you could not cut off the verbascum flower spike as the while plant is one spike and it would then look awful and there would be no point in growing it in the first place.
+Gardening at Douentza I meant growing it into a enought large size so that the plant wouldnt be too small and die. But yes there wouldnt be any point of keeping it if it doesnt flower.
Do I cutit all down in Autumn or do I leave the lower bit?
If the verbascum is biennial then you can remove it completely after flowering.
For perennial ones, I usually cut off the flowering top in late summer. Winter reduces them to the ground or kills off the remaining stem so I cut them off in spring. Hope this helps.
Ah I have binneal verbascum rosetta plants currently indoors from plug plants here in the south of the uk, I am wondering to what height they will get to and il be quite sad that they don’t last but I couldn’t resist them. I have a lot of vertical plants this year. I have tried to germinate some verbena this year but I found a tiny slug in the propergater had eaten the seedlings!
Is that super scented flower plant..?
The verbascum? It has no scent.
@@GardeningatDouentza thanks you so much Madam..
Is the blue plant larkspur?
The blue spired plant is delphinium.
@@GardeningatDouentza Thanks. I just planted some seeds in my window.
the bombyciferum has gone wild here in America. We call it mullein. When I was about twenty two, I worked for the summer with an old Mennonite stone mason and truck driver. He told me that he seldom got colds, and when he did, they were almost always mild. The reason was that whenever he saw mullein growing wild along the road, he would stop, cut it down and throw it in his truck. When he got home, he would give it to his wife to brew into mullein tea. He took a spoonful of this tea every day. I suffer from severe sinusitis, so I tried it myself and it works. Since I live in town and seldom see mullein growing wild, I now order the dried leaves online. Another name for Mullein is Quaker rouge. It seems that Quaker girls were not allowed to wear makeup, so when a young Quaker girl saw her boyfriend coming down the path, she would grab a mullein leaf and rub it against her cheeks. The wooly hairs on the leaf would make her cheeks turn pink. Mullein is pretty in two ways. The first year, you get these huge white rosettes, then the second year, you get the tall spikes with the yellow flowers.
Thank you for that very interesting information about the mullein, all of which was new to me. I don't know about the beneficial effect but I have some kind of allergy to the 'dust' on the underside of the leaves. It kind of catches in my throat and makes breathing difficult. I get the same thing with a few other 'dusty' plants. But it sure doesn't stop me growing them. When I cut them I hold my breath :)
Gardening at Douentza the tiny hairs on mullein can be very irritating. That's why I strain the tea through a fine cloth or felt before drinking it.
good idea
This plant prepare homeopathic medicine In respirtery ,
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