Digitalis ‘Berry Candy’
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Description
Quick Facts
- Common Name: Foxglove ‘Berry Canary’
- Botanical Name: Digitalis ‘Berry Canary’
- Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial / short-lived perennial (often grown as a biennial)
- Mature Height: 60–90cm (sometimes taller in rich soil)
- Mature Spread: 30–45cm
- Flowering Period: June to August
- Flower Colour: Soft buttery yellow blooms with rich berry-rose speckling and veining in the throat
- Foliage: Mid-green rosettes of softly textured leaves
- Hardiness: Hardy in UK & Ireland
- Soil Requirements: Moist, well-drained soil; moderately fertile
- Aspect: Full sun to part shade (best in light shade in hotter spots)
- Maintenance: Low
Description
Digitalis ‘Berry Canary’ is a foxglove with a twist—soft, buttery yellow spires, each bell painted with berry-rose freckles and fine veining, as if someone has taken a watercolour brush to the inside of every flower. It brings that classic cottage-garden height and romance, but with a more unusual, modern colour palette that’s surprisingly easy to place.
Flower spikes rise above a tidy rosette of green leaves, creating vertical rhythm through early and mid-summer. It’s a beautiful plant for weaving through borders, lifting the middle layer, and adding that “look twice” detail up close. Like all foxgloves, it’s also a pollinator favourite—bees will find it fast and stay a while.
Plant it in drifts for a soft, meadowy feel, or tuck a few through a mixed border so the spires appear like punctuation among grasses, roses, and early summer perennials.
Caragh Garden Notebook
Planting:
Plant in spring or autumn. Space plants 30–40cm apart. Choose a spot with moisture-retentive, well-drained soil—foxgloves like consistent moisture, especially while establishing. Full sun is fine in Irish and UK gardens, but light shade is ideal if the spot is warm or dry.
Plant in spring or autumn. Space plants 30–40cm apart. Choose a spot with moisture-retentive, well-drained soil—foxgloves like consistent moisture, especially while establishing. Full sun is fine in Irish and UK gardens, but light shade is ideal if the spot is warm or dry.
Soil Preparation:
Improve the planting area with compost or well-rotted organic matter. Avoid very dry, sandy soil unless you can enrich it and water in dry spells. Good drainage matters, but so does steady moisture.
Improve the planting area with compost or well-rotted organic matter. Avoid very dry, sandy soil unless you can enrich it and water in dry spells. Good drainage matters, but so does steady moisture.
Seasonal Care:
Water during dry spells, especially in the first season. Deadhead the main flower spike after flowering to encourage side spikes and extend the display (or leave some seed heads if you’d like it to self-seed gently). In late autumn, tidy away spent stems.
Water during dry spells, especially in the first season. Deadhead the main flower spike after flowering to encourage side spikes and extend the display (or leave some seed heads if you’d like it to self-seed gently). In late autumn, tidy away spent stems.
Pests & Problems:
Watch for slugs and snails on young plants. Good spacing helps airflow and reduces the risk of mildew. Remove any affected leaves promptly.
Watch for slugs and snails on young plants. Good spacing helps airflow and reduces the risk of mildew. Remove any affected leaves promptly.
Design Notes:
Perfect for cottage gardens, naturalistic borders, and pollinator planting. Gorgeous with roses, nepeta, salvias, geraniums, astrantia, grasses, and soft whites. The yellow-and-berry tones also pair beautifully with dusky pinks and deep purples.
Perfect for cottage gardens, naturalistic borders, and pollinator planting. Gorgeous with roses, nepeta, salvias, geraniums, astrantia, grasses, and soft whites. The yellow-and-berry tones also pair beautifully with dusky pinks and deep purples.
Propagation:
Can be grown from seed; may self-seed in the right spot. (Seedlings won’t always come perfectly true to type with hybrids, but you’ll often get lovely variations.)
Can be grown from seed; may self-seed in the right spot. (Seedlings won’t always come perfectly true to type with hybrids, but you’ll often get lovely variations.)
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