digitalis purpurea

Foxes Rampant

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Last year the sporadically fertile soil of my garden gave birth to a giant foxglove. Bearing extremely large rose-purple flowers, it soared to six feet tall. I looked up at it with awe and wonder, since I neither planted nor tended it during its formative months. Foxgloves, or digitalis species, are so easy to grow … Read more

Foxglove Smackdown

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The garden looks desolate right now because winter does not have the good sense to pack up its snowy bags and go away.  Despite that, the foxgloves thrive.  Even when wintery mix threatens in April, their lettuce-like basal rosettes spring up stubbornly from the earth, challenging the elements to a seasonal smack-down.  Old man winter … Read more