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Verbascum Megan's Mauve
Found as a sport in a bed of
Verbascum Helen Johnson by our container manager Gavin Erith in 1998 and
named after his newly born daughter. Verbascum Megan's Mauve is a
vigorous, stable plant with beautifully dusky mauve sterile flowers.
Removal of the spent central flower spikes will ensure flowering from
June-September as it will encourage further secondary flowering shoots
from the remaining stem. Plants will attain a height of 125cms (50
inches) high in flower.
As with most Verbascums they are relatively short lived, and happiest
in free draining soil and a sunny position. Plant so the flat rosette
of leaves are just resting on the soil surface. A mulch of pea shingle
or gravel around the collar and leaf-base of the plant is beneficial to
ward off the wet.
The unusual flower colour of V.Megan's Mauve associated particularly
well with muted purples, reds, blues and greys with erect flower stems
acting as a focus point within the border.
Dahlia David Howard AGM - click here
Hemerocallis Cathy’s Sunset - click here
Campanula persicifolia Wortham
Belle - click here
Pulmonaria
'Stillingfleet Meg'- click here
Breckland Verbascums - click here
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Verbascum Megan's Mauve branching after
central flower spike cut
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