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Digitalis laevigata 'Gracea' |
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| | After deadheading |
| Common name |
foxglove |
| Family |
plantaginaceae |
| Life cycle |
biennial |
| Flowers |
orange-yellow/purple-brown (early summer) |
| Size |
3-4' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
From seed  |
germinate at room temperature with exposure to light
detailed seed-starting info below
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Another species foxglove with flowers in the cream-to-orange-to-brown spectrum. It is often listed as a perennial, but behaved like a biennial in our garden. The photos above show the first flower spike, typical enough. After it was done with its first flush, I deadheaded the plants. In response they sent out lots of flowering side shoots, which made for a cool and quite different look.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: side garden, bogside border Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Alan | Sep 05, 2009 | I'm interested in the biennial/perennial issue with regard to foxgloves. Have grown a number, iether as plants or from seed which were claimed to be perennial but have always turned out to be biennial (though, as you say, seeding generously). One source I read claimed that if you deadhead the plants immediately after flowering - i.e. don't let them go to seed - they tend to be perennial. Any evidence for this?
Yes, that's fairly common advice. I haven't put it to the test too much, because I don't find time for conscientious deadheading. I do hope to put up a comparative page on the various supposedly perennial Digitalis species at some point, because I agree that there is a lot of confusion. |
- Seed from '01 trade. Sowed to outside pot in late March, lots of seedlings by mid-April
- Seed for 'Gracea" from '06 trade. Baggy 70F with light (95%G, 3-6d)
In the earlier attempt, problem was not germination but keeping the small seedlings alive through summer. Perhaps better to get a head start by germinating indoors.
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