Digitalis Purpurea (Common Foxglove) 2 litres

Nothing speaks more of an English woodland border than Foxgloves, under the canopy of woodland trees they just encompass everything romantic.  A very  traditional woodland plant, ideal for the back of a shady border or woodland area.

Foxgloves will, self-seed if you are not too tidy and don’t cut off the old flower stalks too quickly. Sending up spikes of  large tubular bells many with speckled centres in every shade of pink, white, cream and apricot.  Don’t forget to watch the bees entering into the flowers and sometimes seeming “stuck” before they back out again covered in pollen, that is one of my pleasures in May.  Growing 60 to 120 cm.

As with many medicines that are present in plants, Foxglove is where we gained the heart drug digitalis from and so it is poisonous.