Foxy Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea 'Foxy'
$27.00
Features elegant white, lilac and rose colored flowers with burgundy spots; tall spikes rise above attractive green lance-shaped leaves; a biennial that’s happiest in part shade with adequate moisture
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
but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition., Foxy Foxglove is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its medium texture blends into the garden
Planting and Growing
and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. It grows at a fast rate, and tends to be biennial, and then dies. However, 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!, flowers the second, Foxy Foxglove will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. It tends to be leggy, meaning that it puts on vegetative growth the first year, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, this species tends to self-seed and will thereby endure for years in the garden if allowed. As an herbaceous perennial, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground
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., This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 12"(3'withtheflowers)Hx12"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are cream
Flowers from early to mid summer
Attracts hummingbirds
Zone 4a
Known to be toxic
Likes well drained soil