FOXGLOVES are among the most elegant of easy-to-grow flowers. First, they develop a rosette of foliage at ground level and from it arise tall, upright spikes packed with two-lipped tubular flowers, opening steadily from the base upwards.
The plants may be hardy biennials, hardy perennials or less frost-resistant, slightly shrubby plants usually grown in containers.
In most varieties the flowers are carried on one side of the stem, often creating a graceful arching look. The flowers may be large and prettily spotted in the throat or small neat and tubular.
Compact varieties
Most foxgloves flower in spring and early summer, a few in summer or autumn, and the flowers are usually
