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The rich copper colours of the verbascum, fennel, sedum and diascia plants in this pot echo the colour of the warm terracotta pot beneath. Tall copper flower spikes of the verbascum give height to the display while the wispy, feathery foliage

If i describe a particular plant i wonder if someone could name it for me. Its leaves are giant and furry and the centre displays a tall yellow tower of flowers. They grow really tall about 3ft / 4ft and are are thrivers in droughts. Thank you

and buddleja.The caterpillars can destroy plants' foliage in a matter of days and can literally be seen to swell in the process. Luckily, my one cultivated verbascum has so far escaped their attentions, but a buddleja and several of the wild mulleins growing

%easier It sounds like it might be a verbascum. It will probably send up a flower spike a metre or so from the middle of the rossette which will be yellow. You describe something which sounds very similar to something that is growing at my allotment

if it sends up a flower spike(second year) Are you digging the same plant up or are there new plants growing each year.? I grew mulleins one year. I composted them after flowering. I've had them ever since. Some I pull out, others I leave. The mullein moth

My efforts to grow bare root plants are a disaster.  I follow the rules of soaking and spreading roots etc; but the autumn raspberries, blue verbascum, and perennial geranium, not a sign of them.  I have planted canna lilies, in pots and started

Save seedsPerennial plants are often very generous in the amount of seed which they produce. Plants such as verbascum can produce thousands of seeds each year, and you can sow them to grow more plants for your garden or share them with friends

  Apparently there's a problem with attaching photos directly, but you can link to a photo on something like Photobucket, so can you have a go at doing that?  Failing that, more details - size and shape of leaf, height, how the leaves grow on the stem, shape

. The first is relatively straightforward: the mullein moth caterpillar. These are stripy chaps that start quite skinny, but rapidly become as fat as witchity grubs by eating verbascum leaves at a terrifying rate. I grow the gorgeous Verbascum bombyciferum

Hi all I found a tuber/root in my new garden, (only been here a couple of years), when digging the border and lifted it and potted it to see what would grow. Link to photo. I think it is nothing more than a weed, but I don't see any more growing