Mullein
Super easy-tp-grow plants add drama to the garden, good flavor in the teapot, and many medicinal uses. Mullein's large leaves make a silvery, soft rosette up to 3' across the first year, then soar up into a spire of yellow flowers (up to 6' tall, depending on fertility) the second. Harvest the leaves for tea in the fall of the first year.
Unbelievably enough, the fuzzy leaves do not put fuzz into the tea--it is pleasant, mild-tasting, and soothing. (Imagine--a medicinal tea that tastes good!) Reputed to be excellent to build up the lungs. Also used in smoking mixtures. The flowers are used in oils and tinctures as well.
I once saw a woman in a dress whose skirt was made of huge mullein leaves, overlapped like fish scales. I'm sure it didn't last more than a day, but it sure was spectacular! Great plant to add a vertical note in the garden. Wide leaves suppress weeds. Verbascum thapsis.200 seeds