Best Foxgloves

) have long been included in garden areas where vertical interest and lovely flowers are desired. The hotter the summers, the more shade the plant needs.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Foxglove plants...

If you are late cutting them back and some seed has formed, place a bag over the flower spike and capture the hundreds of tiny seeds as you cut.Always use clean sterilized pruning shears to prevent transmitting plant diseases.

They will grow in almost any soil situation and light, but form more blooms in full sun. Try growing fairy foxglove plants in your alpine garden and enjoy their pleasant ease-of-care nature and cheery blooms.and grow rampantly in forests and clearings...

Here is her picture of the pods and seeds.Gita shared her seeds with me and I planted them under fluorescent lights this March. South African Foxglove is waiting in the wings of the mainstream annual marketplace.

Its furry leaves and flowers remind me of gesneriads such as gloxinia. The enhanced Rehmannia piasezkii photo is by Michael Wolf, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and thisand the cropped and enhanced Rehmannia glutinosa photo by Andy Ma, courtesy of Flickr...

Urbach, University of Louisville School of Medicinehttp://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/com-En/digitalis.html They're the good plants. Not only were two asphidity bags hanging from cords around my neck, but I also had to wear somebody's very bigto cover...

They are mostly large bumblebees that buzz around sipping from my gardens and amusing me. In the early evenings, there have been minor skirmishes between the bees and the hummingbirds, who are just slightly bigger than the bees, in a bit of a turf war.For...

Cut a foxglove stem, carry it carefully upright to your chosen new location, then invert the stem and crush the pods. Foxglove's flowers bloom in succession from the bottom to the top of the tall stems.

Deadheading or pinching back spent blossoms is a simple and effective pruning technique. Because you clipped the blossoms off at the leaf intersection, new stem growth may occur with new blossoms.Allow the second bloom to wither and go to seed on the...

Although they are beautiful, ingesting them is poisonous. It produces foliage in the first year and blooms in the second year, in the spring or early summer. If you prefer your foxglove to self-sow, leave some of the stalks alone so they can go to seed.Prune...

Prune off any foliage damaged by the snails or slugs.Pinch off the foxgloves' wilted or faded flowers. Keep the soil somewhat wet initially, watering about three times during the first week.

When it was originally categorized, the “folk” already had a long history of using the plant and the common names included fox's gliew, little folk's glove, witches bell, floppy dock and fingerhut.

The stately foxglove, so named because its speckled bell-shaped flowers resembled the fingers of gloves for fairies or the "little folk,” served as a primitive medicine despite the plant's toxicity.

One of the first perennials grown as a garden ornamental were the monkshood. The soil should be evenly moist but well-drained. As garden plants, they are used primarily in the back of the border.

The flowers hang from delicate green stems. These plants do well in cool, damp areas, such as the Pacific Northwest; they will not thrive in heat and humidity. The green, bell-shaped part looks like a flower, but is actually the calyx, or the leaves,...

Edible flowers have been used for hundreds of years as flavoring and garnishes. Tired of the same old meat and potatoes? Seal tightly and let set for 4 to 6 weeks; you'll have some new flavorings for those fresh spring salads.

July can be a scorching-hot month but in many parts of the country the first week or two of this summer month are the gardener's last chance to plant colorful blooms for this year and get a start on color for next year.

Each flower has a fairy that watches over it and lives in it. A necrotic zone, or a ring of dead or dark grass, is a fairy ring caused by aFoxglove, or digitalis, is a major player in fairy lore.

Among the biennial vegetables are radishes, beets, cabbage and onions.In the first year, the onion starts as a seed. The bulb is the edible portion of the onion and it sits below ground between the roots and the base of the leaves.Onions grown for food...

Hobby Farms has published a list of plants toxic to poultry and there are many overlaps. In fact, monarchs have evolved so milkweed toxins don't harm their larvae, but rather make the butterflies themselves toxic to predators.

Rather than try to rake up and discard the needles, grow plants that benefit from growing underneath pine trees.Old fashioned bleeding hearts grow well under a pine tree.Select flowers that not only thrive in acidic soil, but also need full to partial...

If the animal is a horse, which cannot vomit, it can develop hives and diarrhea. Plants that are even more toxic than gardenias include jimsonweed, marijuana, foxglove, buttercup, black locust, yew, oleander, oak, wisteria, sweet pea, jasmine, horse chestnut,...

Century plants, foxglove, larkspur, lupine, narcissus and daffodils are poisonous to deer. Perennials include butterfly weed, chicory and dogbane.The Native Plant Society of Texas suggests a method called "Camouflage Gardening" for creating a deer-resistant...

Spring bulbs include daffodils, crocus, iris, hyacinth and tulips. Evergreen fruit trees include lemon, lime, orange and other citrus fruits. When planted in cold winter areas, they die in the fall so they're treated as annuals and must be replanted every...

Starting the season with seedling flats is a lot of work each year, and I'm interested in the possibilities of working with self-sowing, competitive, and hardy annuals in a low-maintenance edible forest-type landscape .

Many fruit trees, including, require minimum chilling times each winter to produce a good crop. Plants that have vernalization requirements must be exposed to a certain number of days of cold temperatures below a certain threshold.

I was elated when I opened the mailbox the other day to find the spring catalog for High Country Gardens, a company in Santa Fe, N.M., that specializes in “Beautiful Plants for the Waterwise Garden.” The catalog is inspiring and filled with a huge...