Verbascum bombyciferum Polarsommer - Mullein

Verbascum bombyciferum 'Polarsommer' is also known as mullein or great mullein and grows in all types of poor, limestone, stony and dry soil.

Verbascum 'Polarsommer' is biennial or perennial and blooms in the heart of summer, from July to September. It produces a large rosette of downy, frosty white leaves with blue highlights, from which large spikes of yellow flowers emerge.

Verbascum is a plant of poor and arid lands that grows in the sun. It is short-lived but ensures its continuation through generous self-seeding.

Stunning in a dry garden associated with Stipa tenuifolia or S. gigantea, Centranthus ruber 'Coccineus' and Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'.