European Gardening: beauties from the wild, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Next pictures are from one of two Verbascum thapsus (Aaron's Rod), I have rescued from being destroyed by bulldozers on a fallow in front of my house where they were building a justice palace.
That was last year in late summer. One of them I have planted in a pot on my little terrace where it can get a reasonable amount of sun, the other I planted in the small front garden of a friend gallery-owner. The one I have in a pot is blooming and is about 50 cm tall, while the one I planted in that garden reached a height of 2.17cm; a real record as the books speak of a maximum height of 2 m. I've never seen such a tall and happy one before, its really impressive and looking rather exotic.

first picture shows it in early spring;