Foxglove dried flower leaves & Foxglove dried leaves

Foxglove flowers. dry foxglove dry flowers. Foxglove dried leaves.

Digitalis purpurea ‘Camelot Lavender

The Common Foxglove plant is a beautiful bi-annual often seen in woodland gardens or the quant cottage cabin up the hill.  Both Yellow Spear foxglove and Camelot Lavender can be found throughout all our woodland moss-covered gardens. A few other names for these garden gems are; Common Foxglove, Lady Gloves, Fairy Gloves, and Goblin Gloves.  No additives or coloring are ever added to either flower or leaves.

HARVEST Time: June – July.

AVAILABLE: Flowers; 15 counts (small), 20 counts (medium), and 25 counts (large) are packaged in a round see-through lid canister as pictured.

AVAILABLE: leaves…… we are in the drying process which will be offered shortly.

DETAILS – foxglove (digitalis) flower:

 Dry PROCESS: Mature open flowers are collected each morning before the heat of the day sets.  Flowers are laid flat to dry in a temperature-controlled environment which only takes less than 1-2 weeks.

DETAILS – foxglove (digitalis) leaves: 

Leaves from seedlings are valueless and are not collected. Leaves are collected from the 2-yr old plants picked when the bloom spike has run up about 2/3rds of the flowers when expanded, before the riping of the seeds, when the leaves are most active. Selected are the only good conditioned green and perfect leaves. Insect-eaten or diseased, or tinged with purple or otherwise discolored leaves remain on the plant. 

Dry PROCESS: Leaves are laid flat to dry in a temperature-controlled environment which only takes less than 2-3 weeks.