Verbascum phoeniceum | Violetta Gift Cards Pick and prepare your flowers

Pick and prepare your flowers by removing any unwanted leaves or greenery

Also a very useful food plant for butterflies

5 Litre Pot | Deciduous

Harvest individual flowers when buds are about ½ way open or harvest large branching stems when most of the buds in the spray are coloured

Verbascum phoeniceum | Violetta Gift Cards Pick and prepare your flowersAn 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'.