Digitalis purpurea Camelot Rose - Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea 'Camelot Rose' is a next-generation foxglove, more branched and therefore more floriferous, and capable of flowering in the first year. This variety produces tall flowering spikes adorned with beautifully coloured magenta pink flowers, showing a clear throat speckled with purple-brown. Its flowering is a delight for the eyes in flower beds or romantic bouquets. Spectacular and refined, it complements all other plants, without fearing their roots. It is a short-lived plant, but particularly floriferous and easy to grow, except in excessively chalky and dry soils. It will surprise you by self-seeding wherever it pleases!

Digitalis purpurea Camelot Rose F1 is a plant from the Plantaginaceae family.  It is a biennial to short-lived perennial plant, developing a rosette 40 cm (16in) in diameter in the first year, with pubescent leaves, dark green tinged with silver-grey, dentate-crenate, with a networked wrinkled lower surface. They are covered with slightly woolly, very light hairs, responsible for the greyish hue of the lamina. Flowering takes place from May-June to July: several hollow but sturdy stems emerge from the rosette, reaching a height of 1.20 m (4ft), often with branched flowering spikes, adorned with a multitude of tightly packed flowers. Each bud opens into a long tubular flower, from the bottom to the top of the spike. The flowering is melliferous and nectariferous, highly visited by bumblebees and bees. This variety self-seeds more or less faithfully, without being invasive.

Plant the Camelot Rose foxglove in full sun or partial shade, in humus-rich and moist soil, in the company of old roses or perennials with single flowers such as campanulas, columbines, astrantias, bugbanes, or annual larkspurs that it will accompany in their wanderings throughout the garden. This particularly generous variety will also allow you to enjoy its flowering for a long time in a large pot on the terrace. In lightly shaded woodland, the foxglove pairs well with perennial geraniums, heucheras, ferns... Take advantage of this flower in the house as well by creating sumptuous bouquets.