Foxglove – Faerie Queen Apricot (Heirloom) – Digitalis purpurea Bienniel – Exclusive – elegant cottage garden favorites for light shade. The tall graceful spires are draped with elongated bells in a new creamy soft apricot shade with delicately speckled throats. Soil & Water: Appreciate fertile, well draining soil and various light conditions depending on severity. Feed seedlings every two weeks with half-dose fertilizer. Planting & Growing: Begin indoors, sowing thinly in containers of seed starting mix. Cover 1/8″, keep moist, provide a strong light source and maintain temperature at 60-70 degrees.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Digitalis purpurea
Plant type: Biennial
Growth habit: Upright
Crop category: Flower seed
Recorded feature: Good Cut Flower
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Soil Temperature: above 50°F
Planting Depth: 1/8″
Germination: 14-21 Days
Height At Maturity: 4-5 feet
Sun/Shade: Full Sun or Shade
Spacing After Thinning: 18″
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for ‘Faerie Queen’ Heirloom Apricot Foxglove and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.
Transplant 3″ apart in larger containers when able to handle.
Place ‘Faerie Queen’ Heirloom Apricot Foxglove where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.
