There are so many foxgloves varieties to choose from that you'll be spoiled for choice if you want to add some to your planting scheme. Producing slender spikes of flowers, foxgloves or Digitalis ...

The common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, generally is considered a biennial, which means that it has a life cycle that, starting from seed, normally takes two growing seasons to flower and then die.

A bit of knowledge with the phone applications that identify plants can be a dangerous thing. My wife Nancy and I were walking through a friend’s garden recently, discussing improvements she could ...

Fairy thimbles, fairy gloves, witches’ bells . . . whatever name you might know it by, the lofty purple flower spires of our native foxglove are one of the joys of midsummer, producing a flickering ...

Digitalis sown now will bulk up before autumn and be ready to plant out next spring The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link.