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Re: Digitalis obscura

Kristi -- The photo was in this month's Fine Gardening magazine, in the
column where they highlight new or unusual plants of interest.  There is a
photo of this foxglove with a poppy that I have, called Glaucus flavicum
(or something close to that).  It's a wonderful gray/green leaved poppy,
the leaves are toothed and the poppies are a soft apricot color.  I've been
looking for something to combine it with that would compliment both the
leaves and the color of the flower, and and the digitalis looked wonderful
with it!

Where did you get the seed for these digitalis plants?

and Thanks for the information!

Nan

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>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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Nan Sterman, "gardening addict"
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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