Digitalis Ferruginea

* The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes; biennial or short-lived...

* The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes; biennial or short-lived...

Seeds: Flowers turn into brown capsules containing tiny brown seeds. Plants can be hardened off by placing in a sheltered area outdoors for about a week prior to planting in the ground.

They broke off on my fingers and I was delighted with my flowery fingernails. An' the, well I reckon you already know that it gits rid of high fever, and I reckon it takes care of jaundice, too.

When this happens, you can feel them panting like tiny dogs. By late May and into early June, they are busy making the neighbors' horse chestnut tree hum like a giant green and white organ.

The Dalmatian Foxgloves are some of the fastest to finish and bloom, making them a favorite of growers looking to turn greenhouse space quickly and growers looking to plant and finish a crop for spring sales.

The flowers open a pretty shade of pinkish peach and then lighten to a soft peach color with tiny orange speckled throats. It ranked high due to its strong growth habit, floridity, and pure colored flowers.

Members of this collection of perennial foxgloves all have sterile flowers, so they have an incredibly long bloom time from early summer through early fall. Foxglove is a classic and popular cottage garden perennial, but if it has one fault it's that...

The flowers are closely spaced on the stems, resulting in strong color impact in the garden. Tall spires of pink flowers with heavily speckled, dark purple throats are produced in early summer.

It thrives in clay or dry soil (wet or poorly-draining soil can cause root rot) but can grow in full sun to partial shade, making it adaptable to many regions. Each stalk produces multiple white blooms in late spring to early summer.

Flowering: Spires of pendulous yellow flowers up to 2” long with brown freckling inside, arising from the vegetative clumps; somewhat bell-to-funnel-shaped. Starting Outdoors: After last spring frost until early summer surface sow in a location with...

Seeds: These plants are sterile and therefore do not produce viable seed. A must for the cottage or fairy garden, it is sterile and blooms all summer long.When to Set Outside At last frost date.

Seeds: This hybrid is sterile and therefore does not produce seed--it puts most of its energy into flower production. Its multitude of blooms rising from strong clumps of foliage continue all summer and fall, for it is sterile, poor thing, and never sets...

Seeds: This hybrid is sterile and therefore does not produce seed--it puts most of its energy into flower production. This one will not take over the garden, as it does not produce seed, but will stand up against deer while attracting a multitude of pollinators.

Described by Helena Rutherfurd Ely in 1903 as "the pride of the garden. Plant them back of the Sweet Williams, in clumps of six or eight, or else with peonies. Flowering: Tall spires of pendulous bell-shaped flowers with light yellow throats.

A lovely perennial foxglove from Spain, with large elongated bells spotted with wine red. Combine with Bellflowers to create a classic cottage garden.Sowing Directions: Depth: Surface Flat temp: 60-65F Sprout time: 7-21 days Tip: Sow indoors 8-10 wks...

Late spring bloom. It is especially good in combination with buff colored roses and sweet rocket. I offer the original strain of this deliciously colored foxglove introduced soon after 1900.

Grieve in the Modern Herbal (1931) recounts the folklore of the foxglove, "The Foxglove derives its common name from the shape of the flowers resembling the finger of a glove. The mottlings of the blossoms of the Foxglove and the Cowslip, like the spots...

May not come true to type. A new, improved hybrid selection that blooms reliably and over a long time from early to late summer. Space about 1.5-2' apart. Fertilizer: Mix about 2” of compost into the soil at time of planting, and top-dress every spring...

The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year. * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens; flowers usually purple, but may be white, pink, or some variation, usually speckled in the throat; biennial, forming a basal rosette one...

Diseases & Pests: Slugs can be troublesome. Prevent damage by sprinkling iron phosphate pellets on the ground around the plants during favorable conditions for slugs. Starting Outdoors: After last spring frost, surface sow in a location with full sun.

Late spring to summer bloom. Nectar-rich florets are irresistible to bees. A refined beauty of the border, 'Silver Fox' has soft, touchable leaves and spires of clustered thimble-shaped flowers of a dewy pink and cream, with "beauty spots" scattered within.

The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year. * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens; flowers usually purple, but may be white, pink, or some variation, usually speckled in the throat; biennial, forming a basal rosette one...

According to Greek legends, this flower sprang from the blood of Adonis. Formerly used as a cardiac stimulant like digitalis but is much stronger. Brilliant crimson and black flowers in June-July.

It does make the body more sensitive to digitalis, and upon your doctors advises, this will no doubt in due course be halved. It lowers blood pressure by dilating surface blood vessels instead of acting directly on the heart as does digitalis.