I usually have the worst luck growing or attempting to grow Foxglove, I love them but for some reason they don't like me. I bought this one in late June between spells of really high temperatures, got it in the ground and it actually existed for me through the summer. With the cooler weather it started filling out some and sent up a flower spike. It was on the sale table at a local nursery with no name other than Foxglove. The flower stem is 12 inches tall but I don't know if it is a dwarf or just stunted by last summers heat and the flowers are a very pale pink, I know they look purple but they aren't. Anyone have a species or cultivar name that I can investigate to see if it fits? Dwarf, pale pink Foxglove ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
Congrats Toni! I tried Foxglove once when I live in New Mexico, but haven't tried them here. Your's is really pretty... and must be strong-willed to survive this past summer.
A couple of weeks after I got it in the ground I realized that the path of the sun moving south was going to put it in full sun for a good portion of the afternoon....in late July and August. I didn't want to move it for fear of killing it so I started moving potted plants around it for shade. That must have worked cause it's recovering now. Watered it every day and one day I went out to check on it and could actually see that the roots had established because there was a perkiness in the leaves and some tiny leaves showing up down in the middle.
Hi, they are wild up here, sometimes covering the bank sides on the highway, very poisonous too. They keep coming up in the garden, good for the hummingbirds and bees etc.
