Plants for a Mary Garden: Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) “Our Lady’s Candle”
Karen Meyers It is unlikely that Mary was familiar with candles as we know them because oil lamps were the usual source of artificial light in her time. By the late 4th…
Plant Profile: Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Also called common mullein and woolly mullein, this native of Europe, Africa and Asia, is a herbaceous biennial and a member of the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, that also includes butterfly…