COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



(syn. macrocarpa). The Evening Primroses are all native 

 Americans and well suited to our climatic conditions. They 

 love heat and sunshine, our burning droughts affect them 

 little, and they adapt themselves easily in dry soil where 

 little moisture reaches them. 



The appreciation of Mulleins has but recently begun in 

 this country. Our native Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus) 

 is considered a very troublesome weed but its noble outline 

 is one of the beauties of our country roadsides, where it 

 often takes possession of raw banks, tufting them all over 

 with its velvet leafage and rearing its yellow stalk — Witches 

 Candles as they are sometimes called — with the finest deco- 

 rative effects. 



Most of the Mulleins are of biennial duration, but like 

 the Foxglove, when they are once established, they may be 

 depended upon to sow their hardy seeds so that there will 

 be plenty of young plants to carry on the midsummer il- 

 lumination both in our own and in our neighbour's gardens. 



V. Chaixii is a perennial species that grows very tall — 

 often eight or nine feet — with bright green leaves that appear 

 early and yellow flowers rather larger than is the rule with 

 Mulleins, that are decorated with purple filaments. V. 

 Chaixii has a white variety which is very handsome. 



V. olympicum is a magnificent plant with bright yellow 

 flowers and woolly leaves. It is a biennial, or perhaps one 

 should say triennial, for it flowers the third year from seed. 

 It grows from six to ten feet tall. 



V. phlomoides is perhaps the best of all the species. Its 

 yellow flowers have a warm tone and last for many weeks. 

 It blooms fully two weeks before V. olympicum. 



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