Another Perfect Plant: Digiplexis 'Illumination Flame'

Written By Paul Cady

For our newest installment in our series, Another Perfect Plant, Land Morphology is thrilled to introduce our newest staff member, Paul Cady. Paul is a landscape designer and horticulturist with a professional background in public horticulture and landscape architecture. Paul will be a regular contributing author to this series.

Digiplexis 'Illumination Flame' is a relatively new arrival to the horticultural trade, first becoming available around 2012. Bred by Charles Valin at Thompson & Morgan, this award-winning plant is a hybrid between Digitalis purpurea and Isoplexis canariensis. A gorgeous cross, it is unfortunately only semi-hardy in the Seattle area. This should not stop you, however, from using it in containers or mixed into perennial borers as an annual.
 

The orange/salmon/pink flowers mix well with a variety of other colors, and this hybrid is sterile so it shouldn't self-seed itself around the garden. The flowers top out between 2 and 4 feet tall and about 8-12 inches wide. Plant in full-sun to part-shade for best results. If you do get this plant, do note that it can contain the digitalis toxin, which can cause adverse effects to the heart. Perhaps because of this, Digiplexis is also deer resistant.

More information at:
Wayside Gardens
Pacific Horticulture

Photo Credit:
Wayside Gardens

Paul Cady

Paul is a landscape designer with a professional background in public horticulture. His years of experience maintaining both public and private gardens provide an informed perspective on choosing, arranging, and placing plants in the landscape. He is committed to creating landscapes that will survive and thrive over time through making informed plant choices and developing written landscape management plans.

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