Soft peach but with strong copper highlights and a central purple stain, 'Helen Johnson' is an astonishingly sumptuous Verbascum . Its matching purple filaments and brick-orange anthers echo the ...

One of the showiest flowers at this time of year is the verbascum, also known as mullein. You can’t have missed the ruffians of the clan, Verbascum thapsus, with 6-foot-tall candelabras of yellow that ...

Many gardeners are looking to add height to a part of their garden, whether that be in a stand of taller species like salvias or delphiniums, or as an individual architectural element. One outstanding ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...

Finding the next big thing has become second nature to plantsman David Howard, who supplies Chelsea garden designers with the plants that will set the trends of the future. Words by John Hoyland Like ...

For as long as I can remember I’ve loved picking flowers from the garden. Those earliest childhood bouquets were fat tangles of nasturtiums and buttercups, stuffed into jam jars, milk jugs filled with ...