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Digitalis purpurea Seeds

Common Name: Foxglove Excelsior Mix

Digitalis purpurea or Foxglove Excelsior Mix is the most effective and spectacular strain of Foxgloves superb for shady shrub and tree areas, back of borders and excellent for cut flowers. They can really bring the early summer garden alive! This is a large, very colorful plant that does extremely well in shade. Foxglove has flowers in shades of white, yellow, pink, rose, red, lavender and purple with conspicuous spots interlining the throat of the tubular flower. Foxglove is a biennial, so it leaves form a rosette the first year followed by the flower spike the next year. Foxgloves are of easy culture and make excellent cut flowers if picked when the blooms are half open. But their real strength is as dramatic and richly colored vertical accents, a look that is impossible to duplicate with another genus. The plant self-seeds under favorable growing conditions, and can establish colonies in the garden that will persist for years as if they were perennials. Plant leaves are a source of the drug digitalis and are highly poisonous. Enjoy, but do not eat! The plant attracts hummingbirds. The plant is good as a cut flower.