Foxglove (Digitalis parviflora)

Wisley, June 2002

I really love this foxglove. I think I tried to grow this one last year. The seedlings were exceedling slow growing, and only a few survived the winter. Considering its Spanish origin, this climate is a little too chilly and wet for it. That is such an impressive stalk of blooms. I hope I can keep one going long enough to see it first hand.

This was grown by the experts at the Royal Horticultural Soc. HQ, so it ought to be good ;)

Hope you manage to get some to flower. It's interesting rather than beautiful in the flesh, but the bees were loving it

I tend to like strange plants, so I'm sure I'd love it.

They can be fascinating

Horehound is surely an interesting plant to grow. The stem and underside of the leaves look like a mass of spider webs.

this is beautiful!!

Thanks tiG :)

This is a great shot philomel. I don't think I've seen such a good photo of this species. I have a digitalis coming along that I thought might be parvifolia. I don't think so now ... the foliage on your other picture looks too silver.

Thanks poppysue. This may be a named variety with slightly atypical foliage. I stupidly forgot to note the name and asked Baa to ID the pic. She felt that the flowers were rather paler than the type, and that it might be the cultivar 'Terracotta'.

Poppysue

The foliage on my D parviflora isn't particularly silvery either, it's most definitely D parviflora though. The top part of the leaf is more dark green, the undersides are a lighter green/grey with some hairs.

Thanks for doing the ID Baa - meant to say that on my last post, very rude of me!

It really was a very impressive display of this plant. There was a large bed full of them and, as you can see from the other, wider photo, the contrast between the flowering spikes and those still in bud was most attractive.

As always it's my pleasure Philomel.

I'm not keen on the flowers close up but I agree they do make an impressive sight .... when they flower LOL

The small plants I have are quite green with long narrow leaves that form a mound. Not many survived last winter, but it was a stinker. I'll have to visit the spot where I stored them to see how they are doing. When I purchased the seed, they were advertised as "terracotta".

another one for the wish list *sigh*

Just checked my small plants that wintered over, and they look rather sorry. Hope they make winter over again. Perhaps they'll take off next year.

Do hope so. Many plants take a while to get established, so fingers crossed.