This is a foxglove with a difference33 make your garden unique by adding the unusual foxglove lanata to a shady but well45drained area of your garden it is a holder of the royal horticultural society39s prestigious award of garden merit 40agm41 and is also known as the grecian or woolly foxglove this hardy perennial39s foliage is covered in fine spikes which are red or purple on its stems and white on its leaves in june july and august the plant also produces vertical spike