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    Digitalis grandiflora

    Also Known As

    • Digitalis ambigua
    • Big-flowered Foxglove

    Plant type

    perennial

    size

    • H: 18"-36"
    • W: 12"-18"

    planting zones

    • 3a-9b

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    Digitalis grandiflora plant details

    Digitalis grandiflora is a broadleaf semi-evergreen perennial with green foliage. In summer yellow flowers emerge. Features fuzzy texture. Attracts birds. Grows well with sun - shade and regular water. Does well in average and well-drained soil.

    CHARACTERISTICS OF Digitalis grandiflora

    Plant type: perennial
    Plant family: plantaginaceae
    Foliage: semi-evergreen green
    Mature size: 12 IN - 18 IN - wide, 18 IN - 36 IN - tall
    Flowers: yellow blooms in summer
    Uses: border plant, cottage garden, cutting garden, floriferous, long-blooming, showy, woodland garden

    GROWING CONDITIONS for Digitalis grandiflora

    USDA Zones: 3a - 9b
    Sun exposure: sun - shade
    Watering frequency: regular
    Resistant to: deer
    Soil needs: average and well-drained

    Nursery contributed plant descriptions

    Large butter yellow bells add sunshine to your early summer cottage garden, combining pleasingly with old fashioned columbines and poppies and adding a welcome vertical accent. Also brightens dry shade areas.

    By: Select Seeds

    Spikes of pale yellow flowers mid-summer above mounds of shiny green foliage. Good increaser.

    By: Hoot Owl Hollow Nursery

    The tall wild type form of grandiflorum with fat yellow bells, it tolerates moderate shade as well as full sun and is a classic English border plant ZONE 4

    By: Arrowhead Alpines

    A fine perennial forming pleasing short clumps of large shiny, conspicuously veined leaves with 1-2' stalks of creamy-yellow 'foxglove' flowers. Sun-PSh/Med

    By: Forestfarm

    Gardening facts about Digitalis grandiflora plant

    How to Grow Digitalis grandiflora

    • Sun Exposure

      • sun - shade

    • Water Needs

      • regular

    • Soil Needs

      • average
      • well-drained

    Features

    • Foliage Color

      • green

    • Flower Color

      • yellow

    • Wildlife

      • birds
      • deer resistant

    • Flower Season

      • summer

    • Foliage Season

      • semi-evergreen

    • Texture

      • fuzzy

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