We will have a small quantity of home-grown seeds for sale this winter. All seeds offered are garden-grown - none are wild-collected - and we are not retailing any commercially-supplied seeds. These seeds are only available to buyers in the United Kingdom.
Digitalis lanata - Greek foxglove
Unusual brown, yellow and white flowers. Norfolk-grown.
This tall annual/biennial is very different from the common purple-flowered British foxglove.
The 50-150cm tall spikes have numerous, densely-packed, small flowers that are brownish with dramatic orange-yellow veining and a distinct white lip.
Flowering is late June to August. If the seeding upper part of the spike is removed, the plant will produce short, flowering, side-spikes later.
Seed can be sown in autumn, in situ, or in pots for planting out in the spring. Alternatively, it can be sown in situ in April but will flower later, probably the following year. Only cover the seeds very thinly - if sowing in situ you can just gently rake them in. Easy to grow.
It prefers a light to medium, organic soil, in a sunny position. On a very dry soil it will only make small plants.
The plant is poisonous, as is its relative the common foxglove.
Norfolk grown, but the ancestral seed was collected from the Pilion in mainland Greece.
There are around 100 seeds in this packet.
AVAILABLE AUTUMN 2011
Lance Chilton and Marengo 2012
Marengo, 17 Bernard Crescent, Hunstanton PE36 6ER, England
