Verbascum ‘Golden Wings’
at Digging Dog

Verbascum

Mullein

This genus has a host of common names, including ‘Beggar’s Blanket’ and ‘Old Man’s Flannel’. In England, the very poor used to put the thick leaves into their shoes for warmth. It is also said that when fish eat the seeds, they are stupefied and can be gathered by hand.

Although most of the more than 300 species are biennials, our offerings are perennials. Though some are dwarfs and some are giants, nearly all have fuzzy stamens and prefer very well drained sandy or rocky soil. We like to use them in the rock garden as specimens or for naturalizing.

Verbascum ‘Golden Wings’ 

Just above this dwarf’s tidy mounds of deeply texture gray-green foliage, buds which look like miniature satin pillows and cheerful one in. yellow flowers rest on short spikes. We plant ‘Golden Wings’ as an accent in the rock garden and in stone wall crevices, and especially like to combine it with Campanula ‘Cherry Bells’.

Blooms June–August.

Size: 8" high x 12" wide; hardy to zone 6.

Verbascum ‘Golden Wings’ (P-1415)
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Other selections in this genus

• Verbascum chaixii ‘Sixteen Candles’
• Verbascum chaixii ‘Wedding Candles’
• Verbascum ‘Clementine’
• Verbascum ‘Gainsborough’
• Verbascum hybridum ‘Wega’
• Verbascum nigrum ‘Album’
• Verbascum olympicum
• Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Flush of White’
• Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Rosetta’
• Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Violetta’
• Verbascum ‘Pink Domino’
• Verbascum ‘White Domino’