Wildflower Wild Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea
Velvet trumpet flowers that are loved by bumblebees
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Just £3.99
1 x Packet - SKU: 760012
Just £3.99
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Key Features
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Winter Hardy
Easy To Grow
Wildlife Friendly
Width: 30cm
Height: 60cm
Height: 60cm
- Velvet trumpets of pinky purple make this woodland native a must-have for wildlife gardens
- Beautifully dappled blooms attract pollinating insects and are a favourite of our native bumble bees
- Quick and easy to grow, digitalis is ideal for naturalising and will attract wildlife
- Perfect for filling wild gardens or meadows with colour, they’ll self-seed with abandon!
- Supplied as a pack of 900 seeds. Native grown seed not taken from the wild
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Description
Velvet trumpets of pinky purple make this woodland native a must-have for wildlife gardens.
Becoming rarer in the wild, foxgloves make very striking garden plants. Their beautifully dappled blooms attract pollinating insects and are a favourite of our native bumble bees.
Quick and easy to grow, digitalis is ideal for naturalising and will attract bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. Known commonly as foxgloves, this architectural plant will punctuate borders with spires of bloom. Perfect for filling wild gardens or meadows with colour, they’ll self-seed with abandon!
A hardy biennial, plants will grow a rosette of bright green, furry leaves in the first year, and produce a magnificent spike of spotted trumpets in their second year.
Never before has it been so important to protect pollinators such as bees, and this wildflower is ideal to encourage them into your garden. Bees are invaluable for pollinating a whole range of plants and especially useful for kitchen gardens to enable the formation of many fruits and vegetables. Take a look at our bee book for more details on these fascinating insects.
Growing to 60cm (24in) Sow outdoors, April-July, directly where they are to flower. Flowers May – July
Supplied as a pack of 900 seeds. Native grown seed not taken from the wild
CAUTION: Toxic if eaten.
Care Information
How to grow foxgloves:
- Sow 0.5cm (Ľin) deep, directly into prepared soil.
- Before sowing, rake the soil to a fine tilth and water well
- When seedlings appear (usually 21-35 days) thin them to 25cm (10in) apart.
- Water well and regularly until plants are established.
- Outdoors, keep plants weed free to avoid competition.
- Alternatively, sow seeds indoors, April-July, 0.5cm (Ľin) deep, in a tray of compost. Water well and place in a cold frame, unheated greenhouse, or on a cool windowsill.
- Transplant individually, when large enough to handle, to 7.5cm (3in) pots. Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions, before planting out into moist soil, September-October, 25cm (10in) apart. Flowers: May to July, the following year.
Delivery Information
Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.
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