Two summers ago I was in Thurmond, an old ghost town in West Virginia. I found a huge mullein plant growing beside the road. The stalk was full of seeds. I took the stalk...brought it to my house and shook the stalk free of it's seeds in front of my house.
Nothing happened. I was kind of disappointed. So disappointed that my husband ordered Mullein seeds for me. I didn't plant those seeds until this spring. They are still growing out in a pot on my back porch.
Nothing happened in front of my house until this spring. I was hoeing up weeds around the rose bushes and wild onions. I planted some horseradish I had received from a kind person in my Herbal Class. And I noticed a small green plant that was growing in the corner. I hoed around it. It caught my attention so fully and I didn't know why.
After I was done working in this planting bed, I sat down and drew the little green plant in the corner. I had no idea what it was but it pulled my attention so intently. For weeks I had no idea what it was. I just let it grow because I loved looking at it...
And then one day I noticed it was growing a stalk with small yellow flowers on it. It was mullein. I was so ecstatic! No wonder I was so enthralled with this plant. Now it makes perfect sense. Well, at least to me.
I love mullien as well and would love to come to its rescue. There is a field behind my house where new construction is going in. There is a mullien plant just about ready to flower which will shortly be bulldozed into oblivion. Is there any chance it would survive if I dug it up and moved it to my garden?
ReplyDeleteI believe you could. I took a stalk of a mullein plant that was sitting by the road. I brought it home and shook the seeds on the ground in front of my house. It took two years but the plant that came up is huge with a long stalk. When I first realized what exactly it was, I dug it up and replanted the mullein plant in a place right in front of my house. It is thriving.
ReplyDeleteI definitely would give it a try. Please let me know how it does after you replant it.