This week it’s:
YOU would be hard-pressed to find anyone who couldn’t recognise a foxglove – the Latin name of which is Digitalis purpurea. Its familiar tall spikes of pinky-purple tubular flowers are a common sight in gardens everywhere as spring turns to summer. I bet there are some growing not far from you, wherever you live in the UK. These are flowers commonly thought of as archetypal cottage-garden blooms, but in the past couple of decades so much breeding work has taken place, as well as, I have to say, a large amount of marketing, that today they are key features of many modern and contemporary gardens, and to great effect. Let’s look at some foxglove stories.
Biennial foxgloves
THE digitalis genus contains 24 species of biennial and perennial plants. The most commonly seen form, , is a native
