Verbascum phoeniceum | Violetta Floret’s farm Clumps bulk up relatively quickly

Clumps bulk up relatively quickly and are easily split in late summer to early autumn to provide you with more plants

green pods are filled with seeds that have downy parachute tufts like Dandelions which will float away in the breeze to land and find a new home to germinate

The flowers are fully double and spurless

Each small masterwort flower is made up of umbels of tiny flowers that are framed by a papery bract

Verbascum phoeniceum | Violetta Floret’s farm Clumps bulk up relatively quicklyAn evergreen perennial this very pretty Verbascum Violetta has flat faced rich violet coloured flowers held on airy spikey stems. Flowering from late spring to summer the flowers stems rise proudly above the flat rosette of leaves. This Verbascum is shorter than many we do but still a stunning addition to the garden. Vita Sackville West wrote in 1936 that her verbascums looked as though 'a colony of tiny butterflies had settled all over them'.