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Digitalis purpurea heywoodii 'Silver Fox'
Aka 'Pink Champagne'€2.70Out of stock
Digitalis 'Silver Fox' is one of the most beautiful dwarf Foxgloves for the cottage garden and border. Growing to just 60 to 70cm tall, the creamy-white speckled bells are flushed with soft lavender-pink. An elegant and rare foxglove that is ideal for borders or containers.
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Digitalis purpurea var gloxinioides
Aka 'The Shirley'€2.60Digitalis purpurea var gloxinioides is an outstanding and unusual strain of Foxglove. Resembling the Gloxinia plant, the open flowers are tubular, each with frilled edges. With tall dense spikes of blooms, they are held horizontally and display the heavily spotted throat markings to better advantage.
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Digitalis thapsi 'Spanish Peaks'
Perennial Foxglove€2.65Digitalis thapsi 'Spanish Peaks' foxglove is a lovely compact foxglove that produces elegant, apricot-cream to raspberry-rose blooms with interior markings. A superb perennial species that can be counted on for a glorious floral show each spring. Very easy to grow in virtually any location, it is often the first foxglove to flower.
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Digitalis x mertonensis 'Strawberry Foxglove'
Merton's Foxglove€2.45Out of stock
This striking and robust foxglove, a hybrid between the pink flowered D. purpurea and the yellow flowered D. grandiflora produces a beautiful mix of the two shades. The warm pink, speckled blooms are larger than the traditional foxglove but grow on more compact plants.
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Dipsacus sativus fullonum
Fuller’s Teasel, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€1.95Fullers Teasel a sub-species of the common teasel. The bristly flower heads were cultivated, matured and dried. Inserted into wooden frames, they were used to bulk up the pile on woolen cloth. The variant name 'fullonum' refers to the name of the trade of the 'fullers' to raise the nap on woolen cloth - to 'tease' it. Teasel is still used today by some who weave wool by hand.