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Apricot Foxglove
£15.00
3 Litre pot
Key information
'Sutton's Apricot' is a pretty apricot-pink foxglove that brings elegance and soft colour to your garden. Will loves to use this foxglove in his designs to add drama and contrast. The tubular flowers sit on tall spikes adding height to a border. This semi-evergreen biennial is a RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Good to know
Flowering
Pollinator
Add a Medium pot
Delivery & Returns
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Top Tip
Deadhead after flowering unless seed is required to grow more plants. Watch the foxglove masterclass to learn how to spread the seeds of this biennial plant.
How to care for Sutton's Apricot
Aspect
Sun, Partial or Shade
This Apricot Foxglove is happy sitting in full sun, partial shade and even shadier positions.
Care Level
Easy
Deadhead after flowering to avoid an excess spread of seedlings in your border.
Watering
Thirsty in the summer
When it is hot ensure you water regularly.
Feeding
Compost
Plant with lots of good quality, peat-free compost.
Soil
Tolerates most soils
The Apricot Foxglove doesn't like extremes, try not to let the soil dry out or flood.
Quick facts
BOTANICAL NAME
Digitalis purpurea 'Sutton's Apricot'
PLANT TYPE
Two year life cycle - flowers at their best in second year (biennial)
RECOMMENDED SOTO POT SIZE
Medium
HARDINESS
Hardy
NURSERY POT SIZE
3L
TOXICITY
Toxic if ingested. Wear gloves when handling.
EVENTUAL GROWTH (1-2 YEARS)
Height - 1m-1.2m, Width - 0.5m
White Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora)
In this Soto Masterclass, Max introduces the White Foxglove, which is also known as the Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora, a very similar relation to the Sutton's Apricot Foxglove.
The White Foxglove loves to bask in the sun and provides elegant points of interest to the scheme. Loved by pollinators they are a focal point within a border.
Max explains that as a biennial the flowers have a two year life cycle, with flowers at their best in the second year.
Watch Max demonstrate how to spread the seeds of the foxglove to grow more plants. He explains, when, how and where to cut the foxglove stem with secateurs and how to feed them with compost after. Max reveals this is a job which can be done into late Autumn.
This guide shows how to encourage a smaller second flush of flowers in the summer. Read the full Masterclass on pruning a foxglove here.
