Flower Specifications
- Season: Perennial
- USDA Zones: 5 - 8
- Height: 24 - 36 inches
- Bloom Season: Late spring through summer
- Bloom Color: Mix
- Environment: Full sun
- Soil Type: Well-drained, pH 5.8 - 6.8
- Deer Resistant: Yes
Planting Directions
- Temperature: 68F
- Average Germ Time: 14 - 21 days
- Light Required: Yes
- Depth: Do not cover the seed but press into the soil
- Sowing Rate: 8 seeds per plant
- Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
- Plant Spacing: 18 - 24 inches
- Care & Maintenance: See: Verbascum
Verbascum (Verbascum Phoenicium Hybrids Mix) - This free flowering mix grown from Verbascum flower seed will give your garden weeks of lovely colors. Commonly called Mullein, this plant has dark green, crinkly leaves and beautiful spikes of papery-thin, round 5 - petaled blooms in shades of white, rose, and violet. The plant starts blooming from the bottom of the spike and proceeds upward, opening one by one. Mullein looks lovely in a mixed border, and it can bloom from late spring up until the first frost. It is both deer and rabbit resistant, and butterflies love it! Mullein makes excellent cut flowers too!
Plant Mullein flower seed indoors 6 - 8 weeks before last frost date. Lightly press the Verbascum flower seeds into the soil, but do not cover with soil since the seeds need light to germinate. Keep constantly moist, not wet, and the seeds will germinate in 14 - 21 days. For outdoor sowing, wait until frost danger has passed, and sow Mullein flower seed directly into prepared seed bed. Spacing should be about 18 - 24 inches apart. Mullein will bloom the first year if the flower seed is sown early enough in the season. Flowers can be left on to self-seed or can be dead headed to encourage more blooming.
