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White Foxglove
£12.00
2 Litre pot
Key information
This elegant white, unspotted Foxglove is known for attracting bees and butterflies. Tall and slender, it provides calming tones in your garden.
Good to know
Flowering
Pollinator
Add a Medium pot
Delivery & Returns
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Top Tip
After the first display of flowers, cut back the flowering stem to just below the bottom flower to encourage a second seasonal flush.
How to care for White Foxglove
Aspect
Sun, Partial or Shade
This White 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 White Foxglove doesn't like extremes, try not to let the soil dry out or flood.
Quick facts
BOTANICAL NAME
Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
PLANT TYPE
Two year life cycle - flowers at their best in second year (biennial)
RECOMMENDED SOTO POT SIZE
Medium
HARDINESS
Hardy
NURSERY POT SIZE
2L
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.
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.
