If you are looking for a plant that adds bold color and shape to your garden, Foxglove might be the perfect fit.  Often seen in cottage gardens, it will grow well in shade or part shade and is easily grown from seed.  

Foliage grows the first season and blooms in the next.  Plants reseed themselves freely so you often have blooms year after year eventhough it is a biennial plant. 

 It has hairy spotted flowers that hang down from a stem that is 3 to 6 ft in height. 

 It gets its name from the finger shaped flowers that resemble a glove.  There is also a legend that evil fairies gave the blossoms to the fox to put on his toes so that he could soften his step while hunting his prey, hence the name,Foxglove. 

 The drug Digitalis is derived from this plant.   It is used for certain kinds of heart conditions. Foxglove is a very poisonous plant. Every part of it is poisonous to humans and pets so be sure to keep them from munching on in at any time.

~Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas”. ~ Elizabeth Murray

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warm weather and crystal clear days,

the scent of flowers in the air. 

It will arrive…

…eventually.

I hope.

~In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers
is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely
as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
-   Abram L. Urban

 I would like to tell you about a blog named Foxgloves fabric and folly  you should visit.  She has a great post about covering terracotta pots with moss.  Click here to visit Heidi there and see these great pots she made and how to do it yourself. 

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Digitalis purpurea grows 2 to 4 ft in height and it blooms June through September, although these are still blooming in October.

Foxglove is a source of digitalis  which is prescribed by doctors to strengthen the heart and regulate the heart beat.  It is also VERY poisonous!   But Beautiful too!   Just goes to show that looks can be deceiving. 

 Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844  

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