Foxglove mixture - Digitalis purpurea
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Tall candles from the cottage garden. In its second year, foxglove sends up stiff stems up to one and a half metres tall, covered with bell-shaped flowers featuring distinctive spots in their throats. This mix offers the full palette: purple, pink, salmon, cream and white, with flowers opening from the bottom upwards over many weeks. A classic of English-style borders, also loved by bumblebees.
Foxglove is a biennial plant: in the first season, it develops a basal rosette of large, softly hairy leaves, while in the second it produces tall, upright flowering stems. The flowers are spotted inside, giving them a distinctive, slightly wild character, and the mix includes every shade from deep purple to pure white. The plants are stately and create a strong vertical accent in the border, so they look excellent at the back or in loose groups of several plants.
The seeds are tiny but germinate readily, and the variety self-seeds with little effort, creating a permanent, self-renewing colony in the garden after several years. Note: all parts of the plant are poisonous, so this is a flower to admire, not to grow in a children's or edible garden.
Sowing (May – June, under cover or in a seedbed): sow the seeds on the surface of moist, light growing medium and press them down gently, without covering them – foxglove germinates in the light. At 18–20°C, seedlings emerge after 2–3 weeks. It is worth mixing the tiny seeds with sand to avoid sowing too densely.
Pricking out: when the seedlings produce their first pair of true leaves, transplant them individually into 8–9 cm pots or into a seedbed at approximately 10 × 10 cm spacing. Young plants prefer a steady, moderate supply of water.
Planting out (August – September): plant well-rooted rosettes in their permanent position at 30 × 40 cm spacing, in fertile, well-drained soil. Foxglove overwinters in the ground without protection; in areas with harsh winters, it can be lightly mulched with leaves.
Care: in the second year, the plants mainly need watering during dry weeks and, if necessary, support in windy positions. After flowering, cut back the main stem – this will encourage shorter side flower spikes – and leave one or two to set seed if you want the foxglove to self-seed.
Foxglove is a mainstay of cottage and English-style borders, and is also excellent in partial shade beneath trees, where many annual flowers no longer thrive. The tall flower spikes work well as cut flowers for large vases, while the flowers are a true magnet for bumblebees – the plant is exceptionally nectar-rich. It combines well with delphiniums, columbines, ferns and roses.
Sow foxglove in two consecutive years – this way, each year some plants will be at the rosette stage while others are flowering, so your border will never be left empty. Once established in the garden, it will take care of continuity itself: simply avoid pulling up young rosettes during autumn weeding.
| Latin name | Digitalis purpurea |
|---|---|
| Variety | colour mix |
| Flower colour | purple, pink, salmon, cream, white |
| Height | 100–150 cm |
| Position | sunny or partial shade |
| Seasonality | biennial |
| Sowing time under cover | May – June |
| Sowing time in a seedbed | May – June |
| Planting-out time | August – September |
| Flowering period | June – August (the year after sowing) |
| Spacing | 30 × 40 cm |
| Net weight | 0.50 g (~4000 seeds) |
| Series | Traditional |
| Producer | W. Legutko |
| EAN code | 5903837128006 |
W. Legutko
Digitalis purpurea
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