Tag: Digitalis
An hour at Kew, taking in several centuries and quite a few continents too
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A Day at Petersham – beautiful foxgloves and roses, alliums and Queen Anne’s Lace – and a gurning horse?
Digitalis (Foxgloves) providing some excitement in these displays - as it does in the garden - with more spires and spikes provided by Salvia Caradonna and, just coming into flower, Aconitum napellus in white. Ceanothus (Californian Lilac) adds more blue to the mix, with bright orange bringing the scheme to life - this is Geum…
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Delighting in the Duke’s Garden at Kew
A jaunt around the Duke's Garden at Kew - the Arum Lilies in the last entry are to be found here, in some shade and immensely happy. As indeed are all the herbaceous plantings here. I remember the searing quality of the Hemerocallis Burning Daylight - brighter even than the Geums here and in great…
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Kniphofia Prince Igor
Huge flowerheads of Kniphofia Prince Igor, towering over the roses and mixed herbaceous planting in the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Wisley. Now I know kniphofia and I have had a mini-affair recently - with Mango Popsicle specifically - but this - THIS - this is a significant presence in the border, a very…
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“Strictly” Foxtrot
Digitalis 'Foxtrot' I am utterly taken by the beauty of this muted, charming, fluted foxglove; something the plant breeders have got right methinks (something new and different but still a beautiful garden plant). Your marks? I'll give it a '10', darling.
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Digitalis purpurea ‘Sutton’s Apricot’
A rather lovely soft apricot coloured foxglove, with tall spires that will illuminate a shady spot in the garden. A form of the most familiar foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, it is generally considered a biennial plant, though it can be tricked into a short-lived perennial-ness by prompt deadheading (still, not gaining very much and losing some…
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Plant of the Year: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Plant of the Year 2012 At long last, a package from Thompson & Morgan containing six plug plants of their perennial foxglove, three each of Illumination Pink (Plant of the Year at Chelsea 2012) and a new addition, Chelsea Gold. Thompson & Morgan Parentage from the little-known Isoplexis (Canary Island Foxglove) gives these exciting new Digitalis…
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The Teddington Gardener 