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blue verbascum

Posted by steelskies 5 (My Page) on
Tue, May 15, 12 at 10:19

Has anyone seen this plant? Another blue for our "blue garden"?
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-plants/perennial-and-bie nnial-plants/verbascum-blue-lagoon/p91826TM


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RE: blue verbascum

Haven't seen it until now - now I want five for a mid border row :)!


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RE: blue verbascum

weeeeellll! It is a funny blue. Hard to describe - it has slatey overtones and looks slightly grubby. I dunno - if you are addicted to novelty, it is rather extraordinary...but it does not look like a particularly vigorous plant (but I am finding that quite a few of the recently hybridised verbascums are a bit puny). At the moment, I am content to wait a bit and see how well they perform over time (and get a bit cheaper too as it absolutely needs to be grown in generous drifts - it is not a penetrating colour). There are better blue spikes out there.


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