{"id":342,"date":"2013-02-05T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2013-02-04T02:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:32:30","slug":"verbascum-banana-custard-hybrid-mullien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/verbascum-banana-custard-hybrid-mullien\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbascum Banana Custard and Other Mullien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/verbascum-banana-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-343 aligncenter\" title=\"verbascum-banana-1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/verbascum-banana-1.jpg\" alt=\"Verbascum banana custaard\" width=\"421\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This nine foot high perennial plant has a striking spire of yellow flowers. This variety has several smaller spikes in this case an impressive fourteen at the last count and still growing. This is a Verbascum hybrida and I also have a white which is less robust but still stately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The leaves are hairy and can cause skin irritation<\/li>\n<li>In the wild &#8216;Mulliens&#8217; produce prodigious volumes of seed as do the hybrids. I treat good specimens as biennial although they are perennial as they are easy to grow from seed.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers do not open evenly up the flowering spike but have colour for many weeks in summer. If dead headed there will often be a second flush later.<\/li>\n<li>Mulliens like sun and space but are not fussy about soil conditions<\/li>\n<li>Try grow a variety with multiple stems. Some have only one spike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6195497806\/\" title=\"Verbascum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6165\/6195497806_57faba5a98.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Verbascum\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Design Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Other varieties flower earlier and in a more compact manner\u00c2\u00a0 with flowers of red, pinks and creams.<\/li>\n<li>Try the cream V. Gainsborough which has the AGM or the purple\u00c2\u00a0 V. phoenicieum Violleta<\/li>\n<li>The grey to silvery leaves create a pleasant colour contrast for smaller plants<\/li>\n<li>The height is useful in the middle of borders with stronger subject being visible seen through the spikes.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the size and ease with which they grow they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godsowncounty.co.uk\/\">still startling specimens<\/a> that are a bit unusual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4820593629\/\" title=\"Verbascum letitia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4076\/4820593629_94655a87cb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" alt=\"Verbascum letitia\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nine foot high perennial plant has a striking spire of yellow flowers. This variety has several smaller spikes in this case an impressive fourteen at the last count and still growing. This is a Verbascum hybrida and I also have a white which is less robust but still stately. The leaves are hairy and can cause skin irritation In the wild &#8216;Mulliens&#8217; produce prodigious volumes of seed as do the hybrids. I treat good specimens as biennial although they&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/verbascum-banana-custard-hybrid-mullien\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","tag-perennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}