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New hybrid plants offer best of both parents

It’s always fun to see a new plant introduction up close to see if it lives up to the hype. Tall pink spires resembling foxglove flowers fill the Sunken Garden at Phipps Conservatory, but these blooms aren’t foxglove. They are called digiplexis, an intergeneric cross between digitalis (foxglove) and isoplexis, a cousin from the Canary Islands.

While foxglove, a biennial, only blooms for weeks, digiplexis will bloom until frost and is treated as an annual in our climate. Many local nurseries are offering ‘Illumination Flame’ and 'Illumination Raspberry’ digiplexis for the first time this season. At Phipps, the plants were putting on a show.

Matthew Hirsh, greenhouse manager at Chapon’s Greenhouse in Baldwin Borough, carried both and is impressed with their flowers.

Click here to read the comoplete article at www.post-gazette.com.
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