Foxgloves.

Beautiful garden,, my friend gave me foxgloves this year so glad I read this because I was unsure of what to do with them after they had flowered

I'm tempted to send him an email as I keep looking but his garden is so full at the moment you can't see very much!

Monty bought some cultivated ones. I wonder if his also turned into wild ones. Liaise they wouldn’t dare!!

Yes the wild ones will always win I've found and the bought ones disappear. Might as well use the free seeds from the wild ones. Monty bought some cultivated ones. I wonder if his also turned into wild ones.

Lovely photo. As others have said they’ll keep coming back. If you cut off the spent flower stalks and shake them to help the seed, you then might find the plant has a second flowering, but with smaller flowers.
Last year I raised a batch from seed that were supposed to be large peachy foxgloves. I nurtured them in pots and planted them out in spring.
They’ve all flowered just like the wild ones! Humph!

I would let them be shysal they are fabulous and your garden is beautiful.

Good heavens, our garden will not stop growing them.
One advantage is they grow easily and will pull up easily and they are excellent for bees etc. I do like them they are worth growing.

Thank you all for your comments. It seems that I shall get to keep Foxgloves in my garden whatever I do. Yippee!

Yes, just throw the seed around the garden. As they are biennials they grow the first year and flower the second year. As in life, some are different, they will grow and flower in the same year. There is always a variation in colour which makes them so interesting. You can pull up the plant when it has finished flowering or leave it in the ground. It might flower again next year.

I don't think foxgloves are at all fussy about light levels. They grow everywhere.

I love them, they remind me of a favourite aunts garden where I spent holidays as a child. However I have had no success in growing them, what's best shade or sunshine?

I love “freebies”! My garden has been full of wild foxgloves this year. I move the new plants around in the spring, the more mature ones will flower as they are biennial (though cultivated ones can flower annually, I believe). I also have some hollyhock seedlings that I potted up, but the parent plant has rust, and the seedlings are showing signs so they will probably end up in the bin!

Once they get established they self-seed and you should get flowering ones every year. They’re not invasive and it’s easy to move seedlings if they come up in the wrong place. I let them set seed, then plant dies back and I pull it out eventually.

I save some seed and sow them in plugs to overwinter in the greenhouse as a back up for the following year. Otherwise I just leave them to self seed where they are.

We seem suddenly to have a lot growing wild around the village. The colour brightens the whole place. They are in big patches in different places so are probably self-seeded.

I leave mine. But I do run my hand up the stem to collect the seed which I broadcast around the garden. This has been most successful so far .

I have had a huge 9ft peach coloured Hollyhock appear in the garden this year (I didn't plant it.) I presume a seed blew into my garden or a bird pooed it out?

I have got a couple of Foxgloves, they are lovely, they come back each year.

Auntieflo, I have pinched some Holyhock seedlings from footpaths around my village. They are a bit behind others but will flower soon. I never have success with scattering seeds.

Oh Shysal, how lovely. I have one growing this year, and I’m sure it is self seeded, but it is flowering, so am hoping that it will set some seeds for another year.
There is a group of houses in our town that has the most glorious display of hollyhocks every year. I am so very tempted to see if I could re-locate some seedlings ?

Leave them where they are as they'll spread and flourish each year. A lovely plant which attracts the bees inside their hoods.

I just leave mine and they come year after year. Presumably they self sow, or do they have corms that divide?

I don't cut them back, and certainly do not pull them up.

I have no idea how long it will take seedlings to flower, I'm afraid, we have only had this house three years, so I'm still suprised by what pops up in the garden.