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The foxglove is a stately flower with tall elegant spikes covered in bell-shape blossoms beloved by hummingbirds and bumblebees. Find out how to plant, grow, and care for foxglove flowers.
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- Alba
- Arctic Fox Rose
- Apricot Beauty
- Candy Mountain
- Camelot Lavender
- Dalmatian Purple
- Excelsior
- Foxy
- Illumination Flame
- Polkadot Princess
Do you love the idea of crisp white flowers contrasting against your red or gray house? I know I do! If you do, too, look no further than ‘Alba’ (D. purpurea f. albiflora). With two- to three-inch-long cream-white blooms, sometimes with purple-speckled throats, graceful ‘Alba’ is sure to please. ‘Alba’ has been in cultivation since at least 1737, w...
If flowers in bright blushes of pink set your heart aflutter, you’ll adore ‘Arctic Fox Rose.’ Reaching just 18 to 24 inches tall with a spread of 16 to 18 inches, this hybrid is a little bit smaller than some of its sisters, but it’s no less of a showstopper. Bred by Darwin Perennials, ‘Arctic Fox Rose’ blooms in the first year from an unrooted cut...
This breathtaking cultivar blooms in vivid apricot and then fades to a lighter color with age, which makes for a sensational ombré of color as the stalk blooms from the bottom up. With a mature height of three to five feet and a spread of one and a half to two feet, ‘Apricot Beauty’ takes up a good amount of space in your flower garden – and lovers...
If you love foxgloves but wish the flowers would look up at you instead of pointing down toward the ground, ‘Candy Mountain’ is your girl. The soft pink, two- to three-inch-long flowers face up, making their lovely, maroon-speckled throats easy to gaze at. Plus, the speckles are ringed in white, adding texture and color to your flower garden. ‘Cand...
Camelot is one of the most popular Digitalishybrid series around, especially in the south where it’s grown as a cool-season annual that blooms well into May or June. A semi-evergreen biennial originally introduced in 2003, it comes in four colors: ‘Rose,’ ‘Cream,’ ‘White,’ and our girl, ‘Lavender.’ For all the purple-lovers out there, of which I am...
Do you love shades of purple so delicate they seem almost unreal? Then you’ll adore ‘Purple’ from the Dalmatian series. It has light rose-colored, purple-tinted flowers with lots of light speckles, and each tubular bloom grows up to three inches long. The Dalmatian series was bred to bloom in the first year, about ten weeks after germination, and i...
A unique hybrid, ‘Excelsior’ is just about always sold as a mix. And it’s easy to see why: with flowers in a range of colors from light pink to purple-pink to peach, a mixed stand of these foxgloves is a breathtaking sight. Each spike is densely packed with blooms that face levelly outward, showing the world their daintily speckled throats. ‘Excels...
If you’re short on space, ‘Foxy’ is the cunning semi-dwarf mix you’re looking for. The different colors in this mix – cream, lavender, rose, yellow, and white – can create a stunning garden all by themselves. But if you want to grow them in containers, that’s fine too. ‘Foxy’ Semi-compact ‘Foxy’ plants grow to between two and three feet tall with a...
Want to try a fascinating cultivar that’ll set your garden aflame with pink and orange hues? Try Digiplexis ‘Illumination Flame,’ a cross between D. purpurea and D. canariensis (syn.Isoplexis canariensis) native to the Canary Islands. Charles Valin of the UK-based Thompson & Morgan seed and plant company first dreamed up and then carried out this b...
If you love foxglove spikes densely packed with large, three- to four-inch-long pink blooms, Polkadot ‘Princess’ is an ideal hybrid for you. Part of the Polkadot series, along with ‘Pippa’ and ‘Polly,’ this hybrid grows up to two and a half feet tall and spreads about two feet wide. ‘Polkadot Princess’ A semi-evergreen biennial, Polkadot ‘Princess’...
May 25, 2024 · Foxgloves (Digitalis), with their stately spires and pendulous, bell-shaped blooms, are truly captivating additions to any garden. They are stunning biennial or perennial plants known for their tall spikes of tubular flowers that come in shades of pink, white, purple, and yellow.
May 28, 2024 · Foxgloves typically flower from mid to late spring and bloom in a range of colors, from Barbie pink to Arctic white. Gardeners prize foxglove flowers for adding vertical structure to borders and containers, but they are also a popular plant for pollinators.
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Apr 4, 2016 · In their first year, foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) produce a short stem with soft green, slightly hairy long leaves. In their second year, a tall (45 – 120 centimetres) flowering stalk emerges and downward facing, thimble-sized, bell-shaped flowers opening up mid-summer.
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Tall stalks bear multiple rows of tubular blooms that would certainly be most stylish on the paws of any properly dressed-for-tea fox! Foxgloves are equally eye-catching and stylish in the garden, providing height, vertical interest and a good range of colors.
