My friend, Phillip Smith, a Landscape Gardener from Auckland, took the top photograph. I would love to visit Ding Dong in the UK and see what it is like. I wonder how it got such a name. Phillip also gave me the name of the white flower posted on the last blog. It is a
Verbascum chaixii, commonly known as mullein.
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Narrow leaved mullein to be more precise....I'd never imagined that anything else would be called mullein, apart from the yellow flowered, furry leaved variety! (v. thapsus) Verbascum is a huge family I've just discovered!
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