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Type: Perennial
Seed #: 226
Common Name: Foxglove
Latin Name: Digitalis
Variety: Mix
Colour: White & Pink
Temperature: 18C - 22C (64F - 72F)
Zone: 2 - 10
Blooms: May to August
Site: Part Shade
Height: 100cm - 120cm (39" - 47")
Spread: 3cm - 4cm (1" - 2")
Seeds per pack: 0
Price: $0.00
Plant these to encourage birds and butterflies to visit your garden frequently. This plant produces amazing cutflower. This plant is deer resistant. This plant is scented.
Attracts
Butterflies		 Great
Cutflower		 Deer
Resistant		 Scented

Foxglove
Notes: This variety produces spires of white and pink tubular florets with vividly speckled throats. Flowers 1st year from early sowing fall sowing. Plants are hardy bi-ennials. Useful in a wild flower garden as it self sows easily. Ancients founded the medicinal uses that are still used today in the treatment of heart problems. Hummingbirds love the early and late blooms. Cut flowering stems down to the ground to encourage second spikes.


Instructions: Direct sow 2 mm in the Fall or early Spring.


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Giant Yellow Scabiosa - A rarely seen, bold plant for large beds and borders. 1 - 2 ft. clump forming plant with large deeply lobed leaves that produces a profusion of pale yellow pincushion like flowers, on stems that reach 6 to 10 feet. Attract butterflies and other nectar lovers to your garden. Good drought tolerant, cut flower with a long bloom period and vase life when flower is harvested just as it is opening. Red Hot Poker - Easy to grow! This evergreen perennial produces brilliant orange and yellow tubular flowers on slender spikes. They will tolerate wind and coastal conditions and thrives in a well drained, full sun, open location. For fuller more vibrant flowers, keep watered in hot summer months. Superb showy cut flower for large arrangements. Hummingbirds love this plant and will visit frequently. Babies Breath - These plants will produce a mound of airy cloud-like,pure white blooms. Do not divide this perennial. It resent division or being moved because of its extrememly deep taproot. If it becomes necessary to relocate your Babies Breath, be sure you only attempt this in its dormant season. Seasoned gardeners have been known to propagate from cuttings in Spring but starting again from seed or seedling is the surest way to multiply your stock.
Giant Yellow Scabiosa Red Hot Poker Babies Breath
(Cephalaria gigantea) (Kniphophia) (Gypsophila paniculata)

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