A vigorous biennial or short-lived perennial, with a basal rosette of glossy green leaves. Leafy flowering stems to 1.5m high are produced in late spring and early summer in its second year, bearing ...

A vigorous biennial or perennial forming a rosette of dark green lance-shaped leaves, with tall racemes of tubular bell-shaped yellow-brown flowers 3.5cm in length in summer ...

THE use of digitalis marks the beginning of the modern era of cardiac therapy. Whole-leaf digitalis and the purified derivatives, the cardiac glycosides, continue as the most effective medicinal ...

There are a small number of evergreen and perennial foxgloves, such as Digitalis ferruginea, which retains its foliage year-round and produces attractive yellow-brown blooms, so always check on the ...

Digitalis purpurea is a native European woodland plant with spikes of tubular purple flowers with a spotted throat. However its cultivars appear in many guises, some dwarf and others very tall, with ...

Grow Digitalis purpurea in moist but well-drained soil in sun to shade. Allow plants to seed before cutting back the flowering stem – this may encourage a second flush of blooms to grow. Digitalis is ...

This border has several self-seeders, especially Salvia turkestanica, Digitalis parviflora and D. ferruginea gigantea, and occasionally Baptisia australis and Alchemilla mollis, creating free ...

I wonder if Ronnie had ever been around the blooms of Stapelia gigantea. This South African native has stunning flowers that look like a starfish, but that smell! Ooh that smell! It has very aptly ...

Stapelia gigantea is hardy to USDA Zone 9, where it thrives in sunny locations with well-drained soil. It looks like a spineless cactus, forming low-growing patches 12-18 inches tall. It is drought ...

(n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc. (n.) A genus of plants including the foxglove. Digitalis is an English ...