Digitalis trojana

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