Pink Panther Foxglove
Digitalis 'Pink Panther'
$21.00
This hybrid selection is sterile and does not re-seed; bright pink flowers with burgundy dotted white throats rise on sturdy spikes; repeat blooming, for a long season of color; performs in a wide range of growing conditions
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Pink Panther Foxglove is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Pink Panther Foxglove features bold spikes of hot pink tubular flowers with white throats and burgundy spots rising above the foliage from mid summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its oval leaves remain dark green in color throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Pink Panther Foxglove will grow to be about 22 inches tall at maturity extending to 30 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 22 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. It tends to be leggy | with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground | and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. It grows at a fast rate | and tends to be biennial | meaning that it puts on vegetative growth the first year | flowers the second | and then dies. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid | and parts of it are known to be toxic to humans and animals | so care should be exercised in planting it around children and pets.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 22"(30"withtheflowers)Hx22"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are hot pink
Flowers from mid summer to early fall
Attracts hummingbirds
Zone 6a
Known to be toxic
Likes well drained soil