Botanical Name: Digitalis purpurea
Common Name: Foxglove (Excelsior Hybrids - best variety)
Type of Plant: spring/summer
Character biennial blooming bedding plant
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape bold, erect plants growing from a rosette of coarse, wooly foliage
Height 2' - 4'
Spread to 1 1/2'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors prefers part shade to deep shade - tolerates coastal sun
Soil prefers rich, moist, well-drained soil; add organic mulch when planting
Hardiness hardy
 
Morphology:
Leaves from basal rosette, lanceolate to ovate, long-petioled, to 12" long; rough textured; dark green above, pale beneath - both surfaces tomentose
Flowers 2' long terminal racemes of tubular flowers (corolla to 3" long), purple, pink, violet, white, yellow spotted inside; May or June
Fruit small capsule, inconspicuous
 
Propagation:
seed; self-sows occasionally
 
Usage:
used at the rear of a perennial border for flower color and striking vertical habit; good in natural informal
 
Landscape Care:
Watering likes regular watering
Fertilizing balanced fertilizer in early spring
Pruning remove flower spike before seed set; often flowers again
Pests/Diseases snails and slugs, powdery mildew, aphids, mealybug
Special Conditions/Other hummingbird attractor/leaves poisonous
 
Origin: Western Mediterranean
Family: Scrophulariaceae

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