Shire Plants Blog

Fascinating Foxglove

Fascinating Foxglove

We're very pleased to be able to offer this unusual foxglove (Digitalis purpurea 'Campanulata') now. It has the usual foxglove flowers most of the way up the stems, but the terminal flower of each stem is a completely different, open form (peloric). ...
[ Read More ]
Hollyhocks and Faeries

Hollyhocks and Faeries

Hollyhocks are the archetypal English (and wider UK!) cottage garden plant which has been loved for centuries. Gerard’s Herbal (1597) notes: “These Hollihockes are sowne in gardens, almost every where, and are in vaine sought elsewhere.” Legend ...
[ Read More ]