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Digitalis thapsi |
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| Common name |
pink foxglove |
| Family |
scrophulariaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
pink |
| Size |
2 ft |
| Light |
part sun-shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
From seed  |
easy, germinates at room temperature. slow to grow in its first year, blooms second year.
detailed seed-starting info below
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| Seed ripens | extended period, starting early July |
Short-lived perennial - it survives three or four years in our garden. A lovely smaller foxglove with rose-pink flowers, the first one to bloom in our garden, in late May. Self-seeds modestly for us. Ours, grown from traded seed, feature mid-green, fairly broad leaves. When I spotted a plant with much narrower, strap-shaped leaves (labeled 'Spanish Peaks') at a local nursery, I couldn't resist trying it to see if it would perform differently. Unfortunately, it must not have liked the spot I planted it, because it didn't return the following year. One of these years...
There must be some interbreeding going on between my foxgloves, because the plants that emerge, while all featuring the same flowers, attain rather different heights (all with the same growing conditions). I'm partial to the shortest ones - a characteristic I try to preserve by collected seeds from the little gals.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. Follow along as I stroll past all the Digitalis species that have called our garden home Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Carol Jacobson | Jun 28, 2005 | My first time on your garden site and I thank you for all the info, it was just what I was looking for. |
| mason young | May 05, 2009 | a friend of mine, borders a wooded area on three side sof her yard. In the Spring, her Foxglove, of all colors and varieties, extend themselves into the yard from taht border...all different heights as well...just amazing |
- Seed from trade. Sowed in outside pot on April 9, lots of seedlings by April 20. Seedlings were tiny, low survival rate after transplanting to garden
- Same seed as 2002. 90%G at 70F with light, starting 7d
- Seed from garden 2003. 90%G at 70F (no light), 4-8d
- Seed from '06 garden. Baggy 65F with light (75+%G, 5-8d)
- Seed from '06 garden. Baggy 70F with light (86%G, 6d)
- Seed from '06 garden. Baggy 70F (90%G, 5-7d)
- Seed from '06 garden. Baggy 70F with light (80%G, 6-8d)
- Seed from '06 garden. Baggy 70F with light (20%G, 8-15d)
Conclusion: easy, no light required. Stays small for a long time - start early to have decent-size plantlets by late spring.
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