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Foxglove Candy Mountain

Plant - 2.5" pot

$9.67

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Quick Overview

Candy Mountain is a biennial but with a spectacular new color--gone is the dull purple. These will bloom this year. (Digitalis purpurea)

Item Size

Plant - 2.5" pot

Details

SKU	2DIG
Botanical Name	Digitalis purpurea
Common Name	Foxglove
Primary Flower Color	Pink
Foliage Color	Green
Estimated Mature Height	36-48" tall
Ships As	Potted Plant
Planting Season	Spring, Summer
Planting Depth	Crown of plant should rest just at or above the soil surface after watering in.
Bloom Time	Early to mid summer
Estimated Mature Spread	18" wide
Light Requirements	Full Sun, Mostly Sunny, Half Sun / Half Shade
Soil Moisture	Average
Will Tolerate	Loamy Soil, Clay Soil, Acidic Soil
Zones	3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Suggested Uses	Deer Resistant, Hummingbirds & Butterflies, Cut Flowers, Borders

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Description

Candy Mountain ushers in a whole new color for foxgloves, and these plants grow only to a maximum of 4 ft.

The Foxglove Story The very important Wild Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea is a native of the UK, naturalized in the US, and famous for being used for Digitalis, the life-saving heart medicine. However, Wild Foxglove is a biennial which often makes it undependable in perennial plantings. But since the twenties, there have been beautiful perennial foxgloves too, a little shorter, but just as beautiful as the towering purpureas.

The great breakthrough came when a cross was accomplished in Merton, England in 1928 between the famous biennial wildflower and the perennial species, Digitalis grandiflora. The perennial foxglove has ever since been called Digitalis mertonensis, named after the town. However, Mertonensis gives us only one color.

Now, the Foxy Hybrids take their places in the foxglove line-up, bringing all the colors back with the biennial issue solved.

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10/21/2011

3.0

Smaller than i thought

By snowbird

from sE Alaska

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Didn't grow well in rain

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Comments about Foxglove Candy Mountain:

This took all Summer to finally flower, but we had so much rain that it didn't do well. I was hoping to get it to cross with our wild ones and get a hardy, beautiful color, but maybe in a better Summer it would work.

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