Name: Digitalis hybrida ‘Balroxose’ aka foxglove Arctic Fox Rose
Type of Plant: Upright perennial plant that grows 18” to 24” tall and 12” to 16” wide. Hardy in Zones 5 to 9.
Why I Love/Hate this plant: First of all, know that I love all foxgloves, especially Digitalis purpurea, the biennial varieties that flower in June. So when the people at DarwinPerennials sent me three Arctic Fox Rose I figured that I’d like them, and I grouped them in a corner of my front perennial garden.
This plant is a sweet, short Digitalis that flowers in June and makes a good cut flower. But what really impressed me was that when I deadheaded the spent flowers at the end of June, it produced new bloom stalks, and was still flowering in late September!
Equally impressive, all three plants are back this spring and flowering again. The flower color is a great blend of coral and pink, and since it’s shorter than the biennial Digitalis purpurea, you could plant this in containers and it never needs staking.
A Word to the Wise: Keep your eyes out for this new foxglove, then plant it and enjoy!
This is how the Arctic Fox Rose foxglove looks in my garden in late May as it is coming into flower. I have it growing in front of a lavender plant.
Here is that same group of Arctic Fox Rose as they looked on September 21st last fall!
Even the buds are sweet as they open first in the early spring, and then again on new flower spikes in the summer. Be sure to deadhead the spent flowers by removing the old stalks as the first blooms go by.
I included these foxglove flowers in small bouquets all summer, but here is on in a September garden still life.
I certainly will be on the lookout for this one! I love that it’s not gigantically tall and that it reblooms! Almost sounds too good to be true.
Curious if this self-seeds like a traditional digitalis and if it grows true to seed?
No, this plant has not reseeded for me – in fact, it died after three years.
Please help! I have these beautiful foxgloves Arctic fox in my garden but do not know how to deadhead them? Remove the entire stalk to base level? remove the flower head to new set of leaves?, just remove the flower head to its base?, remove each single flower trumpet one by one? No clear information on google. So grateful to find the correct way!
Thank you
Louise
Clip off the entire stem once the flowers fade.
Thank you. However still not clear enough. Is it me? 😉 Is that cut the entire stem including the leaves of stem to base/ground level? Also do you cut when it still has a few flower heads to open at the top of the flower stalk to ensure re- blooming?
Thank you for a superb article.
If you cut foxglove with a few buds on the top they will last longer – if you cut them fully open, the lower flowers will fall of quickly. Do not cut the plant to ground level. Leave stems and leaves.