Popular dwarf variety - Foxgloves quickly
form colourful clumps to liven up areas of light shade, attracting
masses of bees. Colorful, prolific, and long-blooming,
Foxy is a dwarf variety which produces flowers in
shades of pink to white with contrasting mottled throats. Invaluable
for exposed sites. The flowers are useful for cutting.
Flowers summer.
Height 65cm (26in).
For flowering in the same season sow in early
spring in good free draining seed compost, just covering the seed with
compost. 1.5mm (1/8in) deep in well
prepared seed bed, and transplant when large enough to handle, 'Foxy'
will flower in early summer the next season.
Germination usually takes 10-21 days at 13-15°C (55-60°F).
One of the best flowers
available for shade is foxglove (Digitalis) Unlike most biennial foxgloves, `Foxy' flowers during its first growing
season. It can therefore be treated as an annual - or if you are
lucky enough to have it survive the winter - as a biennial.
