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Digitalis grandiflora

Elegant creamy-yellow flowering perennial foxglove great planted en masse

Digitalis grandiflora

Digitalis grandiflora, 2 litre container

Digitalis grandiflora, 2 litre container

Established plants in two-litre containers

Description

Digitalis ambigua (also Digitalis grandiflora, or the Yellow Foxglove) is a perennial species of foxglove with creamy yellow bell-shaped flowers in summer. The foliage is smooth and finely textured, unlike the UK’s native foxgloves, and dense without ever taking over quite as much as that of Digitalis purpurea. The flower spikes, which emerge in early summer, are also a little more compact than native foxgloves, reaching to a height of around 90cm (3 feet) at the most, and opening out into a mass of lovely delicately coloured flowers that have a creamy yellow colour on the outside and a light brown speckling on the throat of the flowers.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in two-litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of about 90cm with a spread of around half of that.

Growing Advice

Digitalis ambigua grows natively on woodland margins on the slopes of the Alps and the Pyrenees, so want a bit more sun and light than our native foxgloves – though by preference they still like partially shaded locations with some protection from the mid-afternoon sun. In our view they look amazing when massed on gentle slopes in informal schemes (like all foxgloves, they have a slightly wild, naturalistic vibe about them), where they can sway gently in the breeze and the late-afternoon sun can light up the speckled throats of the flowers. They aren’t too fussy with soil, as long as it’s not too wet or too dry – and the tall flower spikes can be removed to encourage flowering side shoots or to avoid too much self-seeding.

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