Today’s line up includes: Digitalis ‘Honey Trumpet’, Wulfenia x schwarzii and Salvia ’Nachtvlinder’
Sound the honey trumpets! This is one gorgeous and hard-to-find foxglove introduced to the plant world by our friends at Xera Plants. Their nursery is the end-all and be-all of our plant sales and their digitalis is a peach-kissed color marvel with amber overtones. It’s got a long bloom period starting in May and stout flower spikes, and hear this: deer resistant! Add full sun and amended well-drained soil to hear the music.
Shade-loving plants get a table of their own at Saturday’s sale. One of my faves is Wulfenia, whose common name is an insult to the softly scalloped leaves of this low-growing evergreen plant (Cow’s footstep. Come on). We’ve offered wulfenia before and reviews are always rave, not simply for the quick-spreading classy foliage but for months and months of violet blue tubular flowers that hummers are said to love. Not so slugs, for whom this plant appears to have no appeal.
Now for the night butterfly, ‘Nachtvlinder’, a German-named salvia whose color descriptions range from velvety plum to deep burgundy-purple. The dark secret to this sumptuous color is the alchemy that takes place when it’s planted amidst other summer bloomers: Kodachrome! Pure magic, whatever the nearby hues. The plant’s compact and bushy 2’x3’ shape also makes it easy to integrate into any sunny patch of ground.
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