Foxglove - Flowers

Foxgloves are a wild plant that are readily found in the English hedgerows and countryside during the spring. They are offer stunning flowers at approx one metre tall. Holding numerous either, bright purple/pink or white, blooms which are loved by bees and other flying insects. The flowers offer a stunning contrast of colour to hedges and fields and are becoming more of a garden plant as the years go on as we are keeping more tradional flowers. Foxgloves are easy to keep and the seeds can be collected and scattered however if you do this ensure you wear gloves as they are very very poisonous and as always please dont take from the wild as we dont want to ruin ...  Read the complete review

Tidying up the garden I notice some foxglove plants. These plants are e at the back of my border. The name although in my childhood I thought it meant foxes gloves really means folks gloves , fairy folk were said to use the foxglove bell shaped flower as a glove. The Latin name is digitalis the flower a finger like shape. A fox glove flower does fit on a finger well, just the like a thimble. Again as a child I would put my finger into a fox's glove. I expect a lot of you will have heard of digitalis a drug for heart complaints, yes this drug comes from the foxglove. This means the foxglove is a poisonous plant all parts of the plant are toxic if ...  Read the complete review

The foxglove looks lovely and the flowers are very nice to look at, but behind the elegant looking herb lay a real danger. Foxgloves are poisonous and should never be eaten or used domestically, even touching foxgloves can cause rashes and headaches. Do not use without medical direction. It’s classed as an herb because of it medicinal use, it’s been used for over 200 years as a treatment for heart failure. Foxglove – Digitalis purpurea ***The Plant*** Foxgloves goes by many names that include, Deadman’s Bells, Dogs fingers, Fairy fingers, Witch’s glove and Bloody fingers to name but a few. A review about ...  Read the complete review