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Camelot Lavender Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea 'Camelot Lavender'

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'Camelot Lavender' Foxglove adds elegance and charm to the summer garden with large, lilac-colored flowers and maroon-speckled interiors. A butterfly and hummingbird magnet, 'Camelot Lavender' is the perfect choice for planting near your favorite sitting spot in any sunny to partly-shaded garden. Deer and rabbit resistant. (Digitalis)

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Camelot Lavender is an unusual foxglove because it blooms the first year. We encourage deadheading the first-year flowers by removing the flower stem to the base of the plant. This will help promote overwintering and a second year of flowers. By letting seeds form, new foxgloves will self-sow and produce future generations. These new plants can be moved in their first year when they are still small.

Planting & Care

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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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (802) 227-7200 or contact us by email or chat.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Bloom Time

Late spring to mid summer

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Attracts Birds
  • Cut Flowers
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

36-48" tall

Mature Spread

12-18" wide

Soil Type

  • Clay Soil
  • Acidic Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet

Planting Depth

The base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in

Planting Time

  • Fall

Flower Size

6-12" flower plumes

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Growing Zones

  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9

Additional Information

Biennial. Blooms first year.
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Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 4 reviews.

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"First batch arrived wilted and mostly dried out Got replacement and this time packaging was not secure some leaves broken Sad because last year order was perfect and packaged well"

— Annika (3/5)

I couldn't be happier

"This is a wonderful plant. My plants arrived healthy, got established quickly and produced abundant flowers. The color is a delightful light lavender. The plants were in full bloom in late June and still have some flowers now in mid-August. The foliage does not take up a lot of space in the garden, but each plant produced multiple stems full of flowers, some quite tall. Deer, rabbits, chipmunks and groundhogs leave it alone. A definitive plus to my flower beds!"

— Nat (5/5)

wonderful soft colors

"These bloomed repeatedly this first year. Multiple blooms from each plant,"

— Judi (5/5)

flowered twice!

"small in size but bloomed twice already! hope it comes back next year"

— Planting L. (5/5)

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