Quite curious and noted in the herbals of the 17th century. Each stem of normal foxglove flowers is terminated with a remarkable flower that resembles a campanula.
Mixed colours of mauves and whites. Biennial but seeds freely in-situ to come back year after year.
Prefers a sunny or part-shady position and is not fussy about soil type.
Height: 90cm
As these are grown from seed, there is a small possibility that not every plant will exhibit this anomaly, but they will self-seed and some of the new plants will.
Digitalis:
Bee Catchers, Dead Men's Thimbles, Fairy Bells, Fairy Fingers or, the most common name, Foxgloves. Traditionally associated with magic, fox gloves were supposedly given to the fox by fairies so he could creep silently into the chicken run. The leaves of the Digitalis family are poisonous, since they contain digitalin, a potent drug which slows the heartbeat and is still used medicinally.
Common name(s): Foxglove
Picture: Rosser1954 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
