Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian Purple'

Compact, colorful, and early blooming, award-winning Digitalis purpurea ‘Dalmatian Purple’ produces upright 2-3' flower spikes enrobed in outward-facing, purple flowers that are speckled in maroon at their throats. This vigorous Foxglove is a gorgeous vertical attraction in any sunny garden or large container and a magnet for pollinators. An RHS Award of Garden Merit winner and RHS Plants for Pollinators selection.

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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