Chrysanthemum | Patricia Grace Chrysanthemum Verbascums are happy in full

Verbascums are happy in full sun to partial shade and like a well-drained position

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This fabulous compact perennial boasts a profusion of egg shaped purplish-blue spiny flower heads over the summer months

The calyces turn from green to rusty brown after the corollas which are what attracts the insects that pollinate the flowers

Chrysanthemum | Patricia Grace Chrysanthemum Verbascums are happy in fullAward winning old variety Chrysanthemum Patricia Grace is a spider Chrysanthemum in an icing sugar pink colour. Disbudding will improve the size of the flowers you can simply leave sprays to develop. To disbud is the process of removing surplus buds on the stem of the plant as they appear so that the plant can put all of its energy into producing one rather than many flowers. Long vase life. Autumn flowering under decreasing day length. Chrysanthemums