Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
In Dutch: Vingerhoedskruid
Annuals & biennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.3 to 1.5 m, in a garden up to 2 m
- Spread
- 10 to 50 cm
- Full grown after
- 1 to 2 years
- Sun
- Partial shade to full sun
- Soil
- Not too wet, ideally rich in humus
- Water
- Average: not waterlogged, not bone-dry
- Maintenance
- Low: cut off the spent stem
- Flowers
- May to October, reddish purple
- For bees
- Yes: nectar and pollen for bumblebees, May to October
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Stay green: the rosette overwinters
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Yes: all parts, above all the leaves and seeds
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €2.45 to €2.50 each, 5-10 cm, in a pot
- Price, grown
- About €9 each, 10-15 cm, in a larger pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- May to October
- Fruit
- July to October