Digitalis purpurea 'Silver Fox'

Compact spires of woolly, silver-gray foliage topped with bell-shaped, pure white flowers freckled in dark pink leave no doubt that Digitalis 'Silver Fox' is a distinctive and compelling Foxglove and a unique addition to the cottage garden or herbaceous border. This deer-resistant, carefree biennial attracts pollinators. Plants reseed themselves and generally return year after year, providing something quite exceptional for the garden and vases. A must-have for moon gardens.

The genus Digitalis comes from southern Europe and has some 20 species, mostly perennials. They grow either in sun or partial shade, which makes them ideal plants for woodland gardens. Some are biennial, and even the perennial forms tend to be short-lived, but their extravagant flowering more than compensates for this, and many will reseed themselves. Foxgloves are of easy culture and make excellent cut flowers if picked when the blooms are half open. But their real strength is as dramatic and richly colored vertical accents, a look that is impossible to duplicate with another genus.

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