close-up of Electric Yellow mullein in bloom in the garden.

Photo of the garden, with several Electric yellow mulleins in flower, full of pollinators.

Busy pollinator in an Electric yellow mullein flower at La société des plantes.

organic Electric Yellow mullein

Name: organic Electric Yellow mullein
SKU: 5973
Price: 4.50 CAD
Availability: InStock

$ 4,50

Verbascum phlomoides (?), Scrophulariaceae

This large-flowered 'Electric Yellow' mullein was introduced commercially in Canada by one of our inspirers, Kristl Walek, of the late Gardens North in Ontario. The original seeds came from the painter Monet's garden at Giverny, which doesn't surprise us, considering the impressionistic value of these long flower spikes, whose individual electric-yellow flowers are up to 6 cm in diameter, and bloom for a long time! A few rare creamy-white flowers appear here and there... 1.50 m high. Hardy biennial up to zone 3.

Note to botanists who might be able to help us identify it: we're not sure of its botanical identity... The leaves have a small point reminiscent of a Phlomis leaf, as in V. phlomoides, but the flowers are very large, like those of V. densiflorum. Could this be an interspecific cross? There were apparently hybrid mulleins in Monet's garden, including Verbascum x nothum.

about 150 seeds

Seeds certified organic by Québec Vraiproduced here at LA SOCIÉTÉ DES PLANTES

In stock

Categories: medicinal, ornamental, flowering plants, LSDP organic seeds Tags: biennial, white, flowers and vegetables, yellow, permaculture, pollinators, rustic, scrophulariacees, se-resseme, zone 3

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Sow on the surface of potting soil, 6-8 weeks before transplanting, or sow directly outdoors in spring or late summer, still on the surface of the soil. Germination: 7-10 days at 12°C to 16°C. Plant in the sun, 30-45 cm between plants.