Candy Mountain Rose Digitalis Plant

Candy Mountain Rose Digitalis Plants produce gorgeous, brilliant-rose, bell-shaped flowers with black and white speckled throats that grow upward-facing, rather than downward, making its display very flamboyant, even from a distance. As the flowers mature, the blooms change to a rich mauve. This results in 20-inch spikes bearing speckled flowers of every hue from deep mauve at the bottom to rosy pink at the top. Wow! Foxgloves grow best in moist, well-drained soils. They can be grown in full sun in the north but prefer afternoon shade in southern gardens. Candy Mountain Rose is a biennial so it will need to self-seed after the second year to continue growing. Digitalis plants are attractive to hummingbirds and bumblebees and make striking cut flowers. Deer and rabbits tend to avoid them.

Companion Planting: Astilbe, Aquilegia, Dicentra, Ferns, Hosta, Iris