Digitalis purpurea alba is a white foxglove: ghostly, beautiful and stylish. One of the plants I plan to spread in profusion across the woodish back of my garden is the foxglove. One of my memories from my teenage years is the forest of foxgloves that grew at the back of our garden under a large oak tree. There were hundreds of them. And then a few years later, I found millions of them growing on the hillside of Ashton Court in Bristol. Picture by mwms1916 I walked past those foxglove forests every evening one year, when I was miserable and trying to escape an unpleasant housemate. Their spires were better than anything Gaudi could have designed on his eternally-unfinished cathedral, the buzzing from the bees feeding on them a pleasant traffic hum in the warm early summer evenings. Picture by Reginald Dierckx So I want a foxglove forest of my own, and I will be sowing and planting as many of them as possible around the new garden. I’ll be mixing purple and these stunning pure white ones with light pink foxgloves, and watching them all hybridise and jolly together. I hope they bring me as much joy as they brought my cautious teenage and sad young twenty-something self. This is part of the dream garden series on plants for a new F&F garden. Share this:Share Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Comment Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.
