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 plants that are a familiar part of our home gardening landscape may not cope with the hot dry summers and excessive winter wet that are becoming more common with changing weather patterns.

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 ...

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 ...