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ORANGE TENDER FOXGLOVE
Digiplexis 'Firecracker'
Non stop flowering, from mid-spring to well into autumn. With flower packed spires of luscious peach, apricot and sunset orange shades, on a compact plant. Blooms resemble a Foxglove, but much more densely stacked up the 75cm. flower spires. And they just keep coming for month after month. While the flower spires soar above a neat rosette of grey-green foliage (which sets off the flower colour perfectly).
Digiplexis ‘Firecracker’ is rated as being exceptionally hardy and easy to grow. Making an unbeatable combination with stylish peachy colour, graceful growth, and prolific non-stop blooming. Sometimes the botanical scientists who fiddle with breeding new plants really do get it right. These brilliant new Digiplexis plants really are a breakthrough and very worthwhile new innovations. They are the result of crossing a soundly perennial Isoplexis from the Canary Islands, with the good old-fashioned but biennial Foxglove.
So what we now have is... Something that looks like a Foxglove.
But is packed with flowers for months, blooming as if on steroids, not just in spring. In vivid and new trendy colours like an Isoplexis. But lives for many years as a hardy perennial.
GROWING: Digiplexis ‘Firecracker’
Height with flowers: 75cm. approx. flower spires for many months.
Width: 40cm. approx. evergreen, neat rosette of grey-green Foxglove-like foliage.
Growth: Hardy and long-lived perennial clump.
Soil: Digiplexis are not particularly fussy about soil type, providing it is well drained. They can thrive in a wide variety of soil types from sandy to clay as well as average garden loam. With a soil pH on either acid or alkaline side of neutral.
Frost: Frost hardy down to at least -10C, depending on conditions.
Water: Digiplexis thrive with average garden watering. Because they are not particularly thirsty plants and can cope with moderate drying between waterings.
Pots: Digiplexis look sensational in pots because of their exceptionally long blooming period and handsome foliage. They grow well in large containers.
Cut Flowers: Digiplexis make good cut flowers, last well in a vase, and are so impressive for large arrangements.
Bees & Birds: Digiplexis provide both nectar and pollen for bees. Pollinators love foraging down the flower trumpets. Digiplexis are especially sustaining for our flying friends, the bees and pollinators, because plants bloom for so long. Providing a reliable source of food.
Care & Maintenance: Digiplexis are easy minimal care, and low maintenance. Trimming off spent flower spires after the long blooming season has finished is the only annual task. However regular fertilizer is rewarded with even more bumper flowering.
Fertilizer: Digiplexis are such prolific and long bloomers, they will thank you for regular fertilizer with even more flowers. Quality fertilizer, such as Powerfeed, can be applied in spring, summer and autumn. We recommend to water in with Seasol at planting. Then follow up with Seasol foliar feeds to strengthen plant growth, health and resistance.
Pruning: Cutting off spent flower stems during spring, summer and autumn encourages even more prolific and long blooming.
Pests & Diseases: Rarely troubled by pests or diseases.
Deer & Rabbit resistant: Digiplexis are resistant to rabbits and deer. Because their Digitalis parentage means their foliage contains chemical compounds that these nibbling pests tend to avoid.
Quarantine Restriction: None. Digiplexis can all be shipped to all states from Di’s Delightful Plants - one of Australia’s largest on-line nursery and mail order plant services.
