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🌸 Foxglove Suttons Apricot Seeds (Digitalis Purpurea) produce elegant apricot flower spikes, perfect for cottage gardens, borders, pollinator gardens and cut flowers.
🌸 Foxglove Suttons Apricot Seeds (Digitalis Purpurea) produce spectacular tall flower spikes in a rare and highly sought after apricot shade. This outstanding hardy biennial brings elegance and soft warm colours to cottage gardens, woodland borders, and natural style landscapes while attracting bees and other beneficial pollinators throughout the flowering season.
The impressive flower spikes reach up to 150 cm in height and are densely covered with graceful tubular blossoms. Their unique apricot colouring makes this variety an exceptional feature in mixed borders and premium cut flower arrangements.
Suttons Apricot performs beautifully in full sun or partial shade and establishes easily in fertile, moist, well drained soil. Plants develop a leafy rosette during the first season before producing magnificent flowering spikes the following year.
Key growing data:
Plant type: Hardy biennial
Plant height: 130 to 150 cm
Plant spread: 50 to 60 cm
Flower spike length: 50 to 80 cm
Flowering period: Early to mid summer
Bloom production: Large dense flower spikes with abundant blossoms
Optimal growing temperature: 15 to 22°C
Germination temperature: 18 to 20°C
Minimum temperature tolerance: Approximately -30°C
Winter hardiness: Excellent. Established plants survive severe winter frosts and flower during the following growing season.
Strong upright plants producing elegant apricot tubular flowers arranged densely around tall flowering stems. Ideal for cottage gardens, woodland plantings, mixed borders, wildlife gardens, and premium cut flower production.
Grow in full sun or partial shade using fertile, humus rich, moist, well drained soil. Plants perform best where soil remains evenly moist while providing good drainage.
Sow outdoors during late spring or early summer in a prepared seed bed. Sow seeds very thinly at approximately 1.5 mm depth in rows spaced 30 cm apart. Keep soil evenly moist until germination. Thin seedlings to 15 cm apart and transplant during autumn to their permanent growing position with approximately 60 cm spacing.
Water regularly during establishment and remove weeds around young plants. Provide consistent moisture during dry weather. Remove spent flower spikes if self seeding is not desired.
Warning: All parts of Digitalis Purpurea are poisonous if consumed. Wear gloves when handling plants and keep them away from children and pets. This variety is grown strictly as an ornamental flowering plant.
Sow outdoors during late spring or early summer. Transplant to the flowering position in autumn.
Seeds usually germinate within approximately 14 to 28 days under suitable conditions.
Mature plants usually reach 130 to 150 cm in height with a spread of approximately 50 to 60 cm.
Plants normally flower during the second growing season from early to mid summer, producing spectacular tall apricot flower spikes.
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