Digitalis grandiflora ‘Carillon’

Dwarf foxglove with soft yellow flowers with speckled throats, flowering from early summer

Digitalis grandiflora

Digitalis grandiflora 'Carillion'

Established plants in two-litre containers

Description

Digitalis grandiflora ‘Carillon’ is a gentle, dwarf foxglove that makes an unusual addition to the spring and early summer garden. The semi-evergreen foliage is smaller and more refined than the large foliage of our native foxglove, and has a lightly velvety texture with strong striations in the mid-green leaves. From early summer it will send up spikes from the basal foliage that open out into masses and masses of funnel-shaped flowers that are a soft, pale-yellow colour with orange speckles in the throat of the flowers. Unlike our native foxgloves it is reliably perennial, and should come back year after year.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in two-litre containers. The flower spikes will reach an ultimate height of about 60cm (24 inches) with a spread of a little over half of that.

Growing Advice

Foxgloves are woodland plants and do best in semi-shaded positions (though they will grow in full sun). They also like humus rich soil – think here of a woodland floor and you can’t go too wrong. They will self-seed around if left, though they don’t always come true to seed, particularly if grown near other types of foxglove or wild plantings. They look fabulous planted en masse – we tend to enjoy the display, collect the seed (or scatter it around) and then cut back the spikes – often we find that new spikes come up through the summer.

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