Rusty Foxglove "Gigantea"

Rusty Foxglove "Gigantea" - Digitalis ferruginea.
Thousands of honey inflorescences!
A perennial plant from the Scrophulariaceae family, grown as a biennial.
Grows wildly in Southern and Eastern Transcaucasia, the Mediterranean, Asia Minor.
The prominent peaks of dense golden-beige inflorescences of this stately perennial are expressive both in the flower garden and in the cut.
Numerous powerful arrows of shoots up to 1.8 m high in the lower part are densely leafy. The leaves are linear, up to 40 cm long, smooth or slightly pubescent. Dense cylindrical racemes of rather large, unusually shaped flowers covered with fluff, ocher-brown in color with rusty-red spots that occupy two-thirds of the peduncles.
Having grown well, it looks very unusual and majestic in the background of the mixborder, it is an adornment of any landscape garden, because in the assortment of garden plants there are few expressive flowers with a similar structure of peduncles.

Flower color: yellowish brown.
Natural flowering period: June - August.
Flowering plant height: 130-180 cm.
Winter hardiness zones: Z3 - Z9. Winters normally in Estonian conditions.
Warning: the plant is poisonous!
Features of agricultural technology.
Sowing: April-June. When sowing, the seeds are lightly sprinkled with soil. Germinate in 14-20 days at an optimum temperature of +20°C
Transfer: June-August.
Landing pattern: 25x30 cm.
Plants are placed on moist, loose soils with medium nutritional value.
Location: sunny or in partial shade.
Usage: Suitable for cutting.