Year-round beauty! This unusual and brilliantly colored perennial Foxglove is a delight in the garden in any season, for its bright green foliage remains evergreen, while its unusual "crushed strawberry" colored blooms arise by the dozen in late spring and early summer. Attractive to hummingbird and repellant to nibbling animals and pests, it's a must-have perennial.
Site this perennial near the rear of the border, because it will reach 3 feet tall in full bloom. The leaves are bright green and simply beautiful, reaching 6 to 8 inches long and remaining all winter in mild areas. The blooms are tightly packed, dangling "hoods" 2 to 3 inches long, colored a combination of copper and red and rose that is unlike anything else in the garden. Very poisonous, the flowers keep nibbling animals at bay, so they are welcome near your roses and other more vulnerable plants!
The flowers arise in late spring in most climates and remain for several weeks, carrying the garden into summer. They make excellent cut stems for the vase as well as garden standouts. And even after they pass, the foliage keeps the display lively and colorful.
Strawberry Foxglove is a hybrid of two popular species: Digitalis purpurea (a showy biennial) x Digitalis grandiflora (a wild perennial). What a happy marriage -- the result is the best characteristics of both within a single plant!
Most Foxgloves are biennials, offering one full and one partial season of flowers. But the Strawberry Foxglove is a true perennial, with 2 to 3 seasons of full bloom. Divide it every 2 years to keep the flowers coming -- or simply let it fling its seed into the garden each fall, and welcome the volunteers that appear next spring! They will replace their parents over time!
Foxglove is easy to grow from seed. Situate it in full sun (in Northern climates) or partly shade (in the South). Long-lived and trouble free, it asks only rich, moist soil that never completely dries out. Superb in borders, beds, and wildflower gardens. Space seedlings 12 to 15 inches apart. Pkt is 100 seeds.
Excellent source of flowers for cutting, Foxglove is grown in borders, as a background planting or in woodland areas. Digitalis also has medicinal value. Upright plants have 1- to 6- foot spikes of 1- to 3-inch, nodding, bell-shaped blooms of white, yellow, pink, purple, or red sometimes speckled. Serrated, mid-green foliage is lance-shaped and can be glossy or hairy
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Year-round beauty! This unusual and brilliantly colored perennial Foxglove is a delight in the garden in any season, for its bright green foliage remains evergreen, while its unusual "crushed strawberry" colored blooms arise by the dozen in late spring and early summer. Attractive to hummingbird and repellant to nibbling animals and pests, it's a must-have perennial.
Site this perennial near the rear of the border, because it will reach 3 feet tall in full bloom. The leaves are bright green and simply beautiful, reaching 6 to 8 inches long and remaining all winter in mild areas. The blooms are tightly packed, dangling "hoods" 2 to 3 inches long, colored a combination of copper and red and rose that is unlike anything else in the garden. Very poisonous, the flowers keep nibbling animals at bay, so they are welcome near your roses and other more vulnerable plants!
The flowers arise in late spring in most climates and remain for several weeks, carrying the garden into summer. They make excellent cut stems for the vase as well as garden standouts. And even after they pass, the foliage keeps the display lively and colorful.
Strawberry Foxglove is a hybrid of two popular species: Digitalis purpurea (a showy biennial) x Digitalis grandiflora (a wild perennial). What a happy marriage -- the result is the best characteristics of both within a single plant!
Most Foxgloves are biennials, offering one full and one partial season of flowers. But the Strawberry Foxglove is a true perennial, with 2 to 3 seasons of full bloom. Divide it every 2 years to keep the flowers coming -- or simply let it fling its seed into the garden each fall, and welcome the volunteers that appear next spring! They will replace their parents over time!
Foxglove is easy to grow from seed. Situate it in full sun (in Northern climates) or partly shade (in the South). Long-lived and trouble free, it asks only rich, moist soil that never completely dries out. Superb in borders, beds, and wildflower gardens. Space seedlings 12 to 15 inches apart. Pkt is 100 seeds.
Excellent source of flowers for cutting, Foxglove is grown in borders, as a background planting or in woodland areas. Digitalis also has medicinal value. Upright plants have 1- to 6- foot spikes of 1- to 3-inch, nodding, bell-shaped blooms of white, yellow, pink, purple, or red sometimes speckled. Serrated, mid-green foliage is lance-shaped and can be glossy or hairy
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.