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Re: Digitalis obscura

On page 101 of Thompson & Morgan 1997 catalog you with find seeds for
digitalis obscura as well as several other foxglove. Hope this helps.
Linda NW WA

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> From: Kristl Walek <garnorth@istar.ca>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Digitalis obscura
> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 8:36 PM
> 
> Nan: Do you recall which magazine the Digitalis obscura was featured 
> in? 
> 
> I grow many Digitalis species. D. obscura was one of many new ones I 
> got started last year, along with D. davisiana (this one is a very 
> sweet plant- of the softest yellow & large flowered), D. dubia (looks 
> a lot like plain old D. purpurea to me), D. thapsi, D. sibirica (a bit 
> like D. lanata, a foxglove I really like- fawn colored). 
> 
> As for the D. dubia: I was expecting orange-yellow flowers on a 
> smallish Foxglove. Native to Spain.  What I got resembles D. 
> grandiflora. Have never seen this plant "in the flesh" so would find 
> it helpful to see a picture; not that the picture is necessarily 
> correct either, as so often happens. There is much misnamed Digitalis 
> seed floating about the universe......
> 
> I grow all my Foxgloves in full sun and clay soil. 
> 
> Have you tried D. parviflora? This one is a knockout!!!
> 
> Kristl Walek
> Gardens North
> Z4 Ontario, Canada
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