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Verbascum

NOUN
  1. genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves

How To Use Verbascum In A Sentence

  • Perennials, mostly old-fashioned types like cottage pinks, monarda, and verbascum, are another specialty.
  • Think sedum, lavender, lychnis, verbascum, acanthus and hollyhocks, to name but a few. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, two years later, because of tissue culture, gardeners can buy young potted plants of the first blue verbascum. Times, Sunday Times
  • By our leading English druggists are now dispensed a _succus verbasci_ (Mullein juice), of which the dose is from half to one teaspoonful; a tincture of _Verbascum_ (Mullein), the dose of which is from half-a-teaspoonful to two teaspoonfuls; and an infusion of Mullein, in doses of from one to four tablespoonfuls. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums, with foxgloves and delphiniums in the upper garden zones.
  • I'm a great fan of verbascum or mulleins, to give them their common name, not least because they self-seed prolifically, leaving little room for weeds to flourish and filling the borders florifically.
  • Verbascum bombyciferum, for example, will grow 1.8m / 6ft tall or more with long spikes covered in soft yellow flowers rising from rosettes of large, downy leaves.
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums, with foxgloves and delphiniums in the upper garden zones.
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums.
  • Verbascum olympicum is grander and branched, but perhaps too grand for this border. Times, Sunday Times
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