{"id":14048,"date":"2012-08-27T01:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2012-08-27T01:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:35:45","slug":"white-verbascum-and-white-mulleins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/white-verbascum-and-white-mulleins\/","title":{"rendered":"White Verbascum and White Mulleins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis close up photo shows a typical verbascum inflorescense with many flowers packed tightly round a flowering stalk.<\/p>\n

Verbascum Pixie series<\/strong> are a range of plants with shorter flowering spikes. Typically they grow to 18″. Verbascum Pixie White is a favourite with an award for garden merit agm. The flowers open from the bottom of the flowering stalk that makes a long lasting show.
\nFlowers can be picked for indoor display.
\nRemoving spikes will encourage new flowers later in the season.<\/p>\n

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White Verbascum Varieties<\/h3>\n

Verbascum chaixii Album <\/strong>is white with a red centre and is one of about 96 species of Verbascum according to a wikilist<\/a>.
\nVerbascum ‘Flush of White’ is a prolific flowerer.
\nVerbascum chaixii ‘White Domino’ and White Blush are other Mulleins with white flowers and a coloured eye.
\nVerbascum phoeniceum ‘Temptress White’ and other white verbascum photos<\/a><\/p>\n

Other Verbascum Tips<\/h3>\n

Verbascum are also known as Mulleins.
\nVerbascum do not need much moisture and can survive on dry alkaline soil. Rich soil makes Mulleins grow taller.
\nPlants of Verbascum can produce a great number of seeds.
\nOther colours available include Copper Rose and violet called Violetta.
\nVerbascum Banana Custard <\/a>is a strong yellow flower.
\nVerbascum Pink Domino has dark eyed rose-pink flowers and can flower 4 feet tall
\nVerbascum Austriacum and Letitia<\/a> are yellow flowering perennials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbascum are also known as Mullein and here are several white varieties to consider growing in your garden. I like the tall spired varieties but you can also grow lower flowering types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}