Floxgloves, my favourite English cottage garden plant - Rick's Garden Diary - 2024

Hi! I'm Rick. Welcome to my garden diary. I'm a novice gardener on Maryland's Eastern Shore in USDA hardiness zone 7. Join me as I document my gardening adventures.
In this video I share my favorite english cottage garden plant, the foxgloves.
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[@marthabaratti2418]

Thanks for the outstanding Foxglove video 🥀

[@nicholasryan5401]

Beautiful looking garden and foxgloves, They are the bees knees.

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you!

[@annierampersad3982]

I love the foxgloves and roses. Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you 😊

[@bolm9304]

Such a beautiful Garden, eye candy

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you 😊

[@_LinusVanPelt]

thank you for sharing 👱🏻‍♀️💕 i really enjoyed your ideas

[@ricksgardendiary]

So glad that you enjoyed it 😊

[@joannapocock6055]

What a gorgeous garden and the foxgloves are lovely Thanks for sharing your video,Here in the Uk foxgloves grow anywhere

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you 😊. Yes I saw them and the other wildflowers growing at the sides of the road during a visit a couple years ago. So beautiful 😍

[@limitlessends]

Beautiful border! I’m hoping to get foxgloves going in my garden this year. Love that you named it the cotton candy bed.

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you! 😊

[@cassandrasmith5517]

Very pretty garden❤

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you 😊

[@CatMomGardenDiaries]

New subscriber and garden friend here. Great garden tour! I love your garden and really enjoyed your foxgloves! I also adore foxgloves too. I never seen them grow so natural in the garden like in yours. Thanks for sharing. ❤

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thank you 😊. It took a couple years of sowing seeds before they began naturalizing. Now I have too many 😅

[@arielmcgillacuddy6640]

Very pretty!

[@ricksgardendiary]

Thanks 😊

[@ricksgardendiary]

Yes!

[@GardenDoodles]

Wow! Would love to grow foxgloves but 3 years!? Do they also have deep tap roots?

[@ricksgardendiary]

Yep. Since it's a biennial it took 3 years of sowing and sprinkling seeds for them to become self sustaining. Good thing the seeds are cheap and you get a lot in a packet. No tap root, their roots don't go deep at all. Easy to dig up and transplant.

[@glgardener4972]

Fabulous foxgloves. New subscriber here. Do you purchase foxglove plants or seed? If seed, where do you purchase it? This does remind me of England where they seem to grow anywhere.

[@ricksgardendiary]

Hi there 😊. Most of them I grew from seeds. They are readily available at most garden centers here in the spring time. I probably got mine from Lowes or Walmart. Sowing them in late summer to plant them out in fall has worked best for me.

[@continuousself-improvement1879]

Aren't they poisonous?

[@ricksgardendiary]

Yes they are poisonous if ingested.