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    Foxgloves for every garden

    Apr 15, 2021 3 minutes

    Mother Nature shows us that foxgloves, or Digitalis, are incredibly easy to grow, as she generously peppers our countryside with them from May to July. The seed itself is inexpensive to buy, or you can collect your own this year once the flower spikes have dried – just turn them upside down in a paper bag to hear the tiny seeds cascading out. Bees and other pollinators enjoy their flowers too. With this in mind, I trialled about 65 different foxgloves at West Dean Gardens last year to find the best.

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