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Foxglove:
Well, this isn’t the best photo I’ve ever taken, but it seems that this is one of the only photos that I happen to have of this particular Foxglove plant. Honestly, some where in my gardening notes I have the name of this species written down, but I can’t remember exactly what species it is at the moment.
Foxglove are lovely plants to grow in the garden. Flower stalks can range from eighteen inches to four feet tall. There can be dozens of elongated bell-shaped flowers on each stalk. The color of the flowers can range from white, cream, yellow to pink, rose, peach, purple and almost black.
There are perennial, annual and biennial varieties of Foxglove (Digitalis). The most popular kind are biennial which means that one year they will only have green leaves, and then the second year the plants flower, set seed and die.
If you enjoy growing foxglove and happen to have the biennial variety you should plant seeds or young plants two years in a row in order to have flowering plants each year. One single plant can produce thousands of tiny seeds, which may germinate readily in your garden.
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I like the photo, the gloves are catching the eyes instantly.
This plant has the common name of Lady Bells. The genus is Adenophora. If you do a google image search on either the common name or the botanical genus, you may be able to determine exactly what species you’re growing.
They’re wonderful. I especially enjoy discovering them during walks in the woods. Here in new england, I’ve often found huge clusters of them growing near old house foundations