When is a lamb’s ear not a lamb’s ear?
When it’s a Verbascum thapsus (Great or Common Mullein), of course! We finally managed to persist in our research long enough to track down the actual plant name.
But I think they might always be lamb’s ears to us!
And despite our best efforts to date at digging them all out, there’s still a huge number appearing as single rosettes or in little clumps around the place. We keep digging them out, and they keep popping back up. I guess it’s just going to be an ongoing war until either the seed bank or ourselves are exhausted. We’ll see who gives in first.
But having seen what happens if you leave them to it in Central, I think we’ll keep making the effort!