Rosette Mullein

Rosette Mullein (Ramondia) - R. pyrenaica is an interesting plant, with leaves in rosettes close to the ground, the flowers purple-violet color, with orange-yellow centre, 1 to 1 1/2 inches across, on stems 2 to 6 inches long, in spring and early summer. It is found in the valleys of the Pyrenees, on the face of steep and rather shady rocks. There is a rare white variety and a rosy form of much beauty has also appeared quite recently. Less known, but more easily grown, is R. serbica from the Balkan Mountains, a rather taller plant, in which the leaves are covered with soft brown hair, and the flowers are pale blue or mauve colored. A form of this from the Carpathian Mountains, Nathalice, is perhaps the best of all, though still scarce. Its white variety is both choice and rare. The Ramondias are not surpassed by any alpines for choiceness, flower, beauty and freedom, and adaptability to cultivation in lowland gardens. They revel in cool and shady places, the nearly vertical faces of damp rocks, cool and moist rock gullies, and are well suited to wall gardening where such conditions obtain. In any of these places they should be colonised on a generous scale. Quite hardy, they are happiest when sheltered from cutting winds. A lime-free soil suits them best, a generous mixture of loam, leaf soil and sand, with consistently cool or moist conditions, meeting all requirements. The best method of increase is by seeds which are freely produced and should be sown promptly. The seeds are exceedingly minute and require but little or no covering.

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