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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Perennials => Topic started by: Jamus on October 22, 2014, 04:00:11 PM
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I collected seed from my Verbascum 'Violetta' last summer and raised a lot of new plants. The first of these started flowering yesterday and to my surprise are something different, although very nice and I'm not at all disappointed. I wonder does anyone know if this form segregates or perhaps the bees have hybridised it with my V. chaixii album? Although these are a little later flowering. I'm thrown a little by the fact that there are three plants flowering and all appear to be identical, without variation between them...
Violetta, parent
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3950/15412554439_f2a5a39e46.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jstonor/15412554439/)
Progeny of violetta
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3947/15413063128_c2c47ef65b.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jstonor/15413063128/)
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Stunning Verbascums Fermi - I love them but they do not perform well for me - any tips on what growing conditions they like? I do get some spontaneous " wild " annual ones that have dainty yellow flowers with a maroon marking at the base of the petals - have never managed to identify them. This year they have grown particularly well as it has been unusually wet - perhaps that is the secret ?
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Apologies all round - I meant Jamus when I wrote Fermi :)
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Could your Verbascum be sinuatum? We get wild ones appearing from time to time. See thread called Disasters under Our Gardens for a photo.
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Apologies all round - I meant Jamus when I wrote Fermi :)
No offence taken ;D
Jamus takes much better pics than I do!
cheers
fermi
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Conditions for growth - free draining, neutral to alkaline, full sun, dry summers (a little supplemental water), wet winters. Spring flowering.