Category: Rarium | Sub-Category: Perennials for Sun
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Digitalis trojana
Family: (Plantaginaceae)
(B/P) to 3′. Helen of Troy Foxglove. Turkey. This beauty makes an evergreen rosette with gleaming, dark green lanceolate leaves with fine, grey-haired margins. Flower spikes of furry, tightly set, silver buds open to caramel-coloured blossoms, featuring intricately patterned golden yellow and brown throats, and a conspicuous creamy-white lower lip. Long blooming and more drought tolerant than other Digitalis and happiest in a cool, somewhat shady setting. A fairly new summer bloomer in our Gravel Garden. Sun/partial shade. 4 & T2