Foxgloves / Saving & Sowing Seed NOW for next year's blooms / Homegrown Garden

Foxgloves are one of my favourite native species of wildflowers and I encourage them to grow and spread as much as possible on my allotment because they are also a favourite of the bees. In this mini episode I'll chat about why they're great to grow and show you a few different ways to save the seed and why it's important to sow now for next year's blooms.
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[@bmeghani88]

That grey bench that turns into table is wicked

[@Peter-qf6lx]

A convertible!

[@homegrowngarden]

Best freebie ever

[@rw6262]

@@Peter-qf6lx Convertable.

[@wayneowens5225]

Your shaking reminded me of someone first learning to fence. Very entertaining.

[@homegrowngarden]

Gardening should never be taken too seriously!

[@JamesBrown-mt5ru]

Katrina, since discovering your channel about two years ago I've noticed your videos become better and better. I mildly chastised you back then when you made a comment about your voice. I think you encountered what we all find when we here our voice recorded for the first time. I not only enjoy your videos for the gardening hints but you are such a pleasure to listen to - a clear confident voice and a lovely smile - keep up the good work!

[@GardenerOnAMission]

That was one long foxglove. I thought mine had done well. As you, foxgloves are one of my favorite if not my most favorite flower. Nice video. Have a great day or evening since you are ahead of me. I'm in NE Ohio in the U.S.

[@dreamchaser8960]

"shake it like there's no tomorrow" haha Love it! Your foxgloves looked good enough to eat when they were blooming. Wishing i was a bee. bzzzz....(:

[@garyz2043]

Yes.get them down your neck,Dont we all wish we were a bee.

[@garyz2043]

Ok silly joke. Nobody please eat foxgloves or you will die.!

[@lelurve]

3:33 that bench-table 😍

[@RaeKearns]

Very informative video, thanks a mill from Ireland.

[@dahlialady4131]

I love Foxgloves (Fingerhut) too. I had several plants scattered in my 2 large flowerbeds. There are a few large plants popping up. Keeping fingers crossed that I get many blooms next spring 😊 Happy Gardening from Berlin, Germany 💚💚🌻💗🌺🌷🍀🐝🐝

[@DavidSRClark]

I have some English gardens with foxglove...but, still learning 🌹😁 (New Hampshire, USA)

[@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow]

Here in hot and humid East Tenn, USA, the Foxies grow really well in partial shade and SHADE. I sprinkle the seed in an outside open nursery bed in late summer and they grow into little plants all winter long; ready to be planted in any of the garden beds in the spring.

[@Greyghost80]

That’s good to know, cause I was wondering about if they would grow here in Virginia.

[@ourfloridagarden4191]

I do grow foxgloves here in Florida. It took a few years to get them acclimated but now that they have self seeded a few years they do their thing.

[@teresaiskra2650]

Thank you, very informative

[@susanboon4605]

Here in Shelburne, Ontario , we are in Zone 4b, and foxgloves do very well. As a kid, we called them fairy hats.

[@MatTheeDarkOverLordSimons]

Digitalis is one of those words that is nice to say, Digitalis :-)

[@tanishawatson1581]

That bench table, though!

[@groundworkcivils7506]

Foxgloves are bi-annual because they grow across 2 years, germinate at the end of summer, grow in autumn, hibernate through winter, grow again in spring and flower in full throughout summer... They don't have a 2 years (730 day cycle).... Thanks for the explanation❤

[@michellelaffling4060]

I love foxgloves. Medicinedprescribed for me as a child - digoxin- saved my life. It's made from foxgloves!

[@stevendowden2579]

i love foxgloves lovely flower

[@robinholt5661]

Hi Katrina, I’ve only just come across your videos/channel and I love them! You are so passionate about your plot, I love it. Great tips, instructions and just a great calming watch. It’s great to see you are not obsessive about weeds, weeds are my nemesis!! Arghhh x

[@leanneballard7691]

I love Foxgloves! I wish I had a patch of woodland for these beauties. I have been successful with Foxgloves here in the low desert of Arizona! I love having them each year in my early spring garden.

[@WattedoeninberlijnNl030]

I live east of Berlin and am currently staring my very first garden from scratch! I already prepped my foxgloves in pots on my balcony, so I hope to have a lot of flowers from them next year! ❤️ Thank you for your videos, I find them very inspirational and like your style of gardening a lot!

[@rosemarymurray8256]

I once visit your country over 35 years ago ,you have a beautiful country, 😀

[@raincoast9010]

Your just so darn cheerful, i have reflected and come around to the thinking that there is definitely room for flowers the vegetable garden.

[@georgealderson4424]

Thank you Miss. It is a lovely video and answered my curiosity about whether hybrid varieties produce seeds. Also I was reassured to hear you say that the seed can be simply scattered. I have been doing that in the hope that they would grow for the benefit of bees, but then fretted that I should have made more effort! Nature seems to be more successful than me at growing things sometimes! Time will tell but, given the amount of seeds I scattered, I imagine at least one will germinate!

[@patriciaevans7953]

i will say i really enjoyed this video, thank you for putting on yt. i want to see more.

[@carmenbailey1560]

Lucky you, your foxgloves are beautiful. They don’t work for me, but I can appreciate your.👍❤️😊

[@swarfegakid]

Fox gloves are beautiful, flower over a few month..... I've got 5 self setters of ranging from light pink to white and they are in the gap between the roadside tarmac and my house front wall..... A few people on my street are keeping eye out for seed time... Lovely video

[@user-kd4xx3sq1r]

What a lovely video. Upstate NY here. Foxgloves (my first) are transplanted to their garden sights and looking forward to next years show. LOVED the shaking stalk seeding method.

[@robertr7569]

Great idea to flick the seed stem about the garden. My wife will find that very helpful as well as the bag method.

[@marcusseidel6824]

I m living in Belgium. Received fresh harvested seeds a few days ago ....I ve sown it directly around trees . Hopefulky they wil germinate well. Pams choice seems to me a fabulous variety. I prefer white above pink. But love them all ... Its sad that they are poisonous ....as a child they looked like candy to me. My granny warned mr several times. Thank you granny. Thank you for this nice video. Greetings from Belgium.

[@homegrowngarden]

I’ve just been looking at some unusual varieties to grow for next year! Hope yours grow well for you!

[@user-bh6ri5nj3x]

Grow well here in Oregon- the Pacific Northwest of the US- Thanks for sharing the video and the great form when jousting the seeds off!

[@selinanguyenofficial7343]

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[@ankabubanj5483]

Love to see you again... Love the video... Stay safe...

[@peterellis1201]

Hi I love your foxgloves and I see you are good at sword fencing 🤺 , thanks a good idea with the paper bag have to try that one , take care be safe 🍓🍓

[@mums_homestead]

I adore foxgloves, lovely video. :)

[@teetstreats5682]

Started growing these in San Francisco. They love the climate here!

[@zindagikinayishuruaat2157]

Beautiful flowers 💐

[@MikeH_PR]

I’m in Normandy & this has been the best Foxglove spring. None in my little meadow though, so I’ll rear some from wild seeds as you demo here 👍

[@michaelfrazer1807]

Thank You so much. I don't grow them but I'm thinking I well . I have bees and I'll do most anything for them . I love my girls and don't charge them much rent.

[@luanllluan]

They're beautiful!

[@magoolew5131]

So is Katrina. I think she's a beauty too.

[@luanllluan]

@@magoolew5131 indeed

[@jean-loup2186]

Beautiful flowers !

[@GardentheNorth]

Your the kid of person I would love to LARP with! Love the music, my heart song💕💕👍🏼🇨🇦Calgary

[@NewMindGarden]

Amazing

[@eriklane4808]

I’ve never grown foxgloves, but you’ve convinced me to give them a try next year! They really are beautiful 😊

[@b-rad363]

Here in Kentucky I’ve planted this spring in full sun. Purchased the whole plant from local vendor. Fingers crossed…..

[@bekielewis9423]

My foxgloves have self set already, I have about 15 baby plants!!! 🙌🏻

[@homegrowngarden]

Yay!!

[@alanhart6197]

love fox gloves, grow well in Nelson New Zealand in partial shade

[@saraho1913]

So beautiful !

[@LINativePlantConservation]

omg that bench!! i need one!

[@LocustIvy]

South Carolina USA here. 2024 - first year growing foxgloves.

[@hannahcook04]

In my local bush area there is an absolutely gorgeous white foxglove with variegated leaves, I've just watched this and I'm going to don my gloves and snips and wander down and see if it's looking crispy (it's currently mid summer in New Zealand). Thanks :D

[@AshFromEarth]

Really helpful, thank you! Also, you are SO pretty!!

[@bridecolbourne1305]

My favourite plant 👍👍💖

[@matthewgardiner6793]

Greetings from New Zealand,love foxgloves,grow wild here in parts of NZ,I let them naturalise in my garden

[@neilrobinson9806]

Love your channel👍👍👍👍👍

[@453421abcdefg12345]

We have never had much luck with D,purpea in our garden, I think it is much too hot for them, but the Woolly Foxglove, D, lanata, does very well, it is a very attractive species, and I think tolerates the hotter conditions, many thanks for posting this video it is well balanced and interesting, and of course well presented! Chris B.

[@lorettataylor9902]

Beautiful color thank fo the advice.

[@gardeningperth]

Love you so much, love your garden skills!!! More power to you!

[@gardentours]

Method number 1 ist absolutely 👍🤣😂👍👍🤗

[@thegrowinggardener]

I have one Fox glove that is hanging on for dear life in 100* F weather here in Southern California. It's a little crispy around the edges, but I have hope now that it will bloom next Spring...I'm just how learning about biennial flowers....patience.

[@grahamcass7420]

This season fox gloves have shone for all there worth ,unlike most years fading away quickly in SE england,more of a Hollyhock person myself,a tad more elegance about them

[@gardeningforcatlovers39]

I love the 'wild and free' foxglove beauties that I get growing in my garden every year. I have never tried collecting the seed, I have just got good at identifying different seedlings, leave enough foxgloves seedlings to develop and then transplant them to where I want them. I suppose collecting and sowing the seed might save on the weeding somewhat. Love your channel, so lovely to feel the enthusiasm you have for the space you create and produce you grow, thank you.

[@melstill]

Always liked Foxgloves, they grow wild here too near the coast, where it's naturally wetter.

[@russhobbs4993]

Very cute

[@wyattburp2395]

Beautiful

[@MyPlantWorld]

thanks for sharing useful tips

[@debbiestip]

In my garden here in the Netherlands I have had foxgloves for the last couple of years. I think I've introduced them by sowing once directly in summer and now every year I see some coming up. This year there were only white ones, the years before mostly pink ones. Love the apricot by the way! They may have cross pollinated with your other ones, excited to see what nature makes of that mix! Gr. Debbie

[@pauln1557]

You have an awesome garden, it's a real inspiration. I love that garden seat that unfolds into a picnic table at 3:33, never seen one before. Any chance of a quick 'walk around' video of it please , with a couple of key dimensions , so I can make one? Regards Paul in NZ

[@jaysonenfeld2321]

Great video

[@sandiesorchids9387]

I ❤ FLOXGLOVE

[@OfftoShambala]

It’s like a light saber!

[@flowerpixel]

Had no idea they were so poisonous! Thank you

[@mikeflix1598]

You're really charming with an easy and well edited video to watch. I'm trying to find the best way to seperate my Foxgloves' stems after 3 layers of petals, many seeds were planted together, what do you recommend? Thank you.

[@kaleendavis8427]

Could you please do a video on how to deadhead foxgloves.

[@alanwann9318]

I bought and planted 6 white dalmatians, due to self seeding i now have 14 young plants

[@NvrGoATM]

well I did not know these die back after blooms. 🙃 I cut back all the dead growth thinking I messed up and probably threw away all the seeding branches

[@baward]

Nice video, thank you. I like your bench that turns into a table! Where did you get it? (I am in the UK)

[@homegrowngarden]

@@baward it’s was second hand!

[@kater8730]

Ok you had me laughing at the sword fight with the foxgloves, perfect music too. Hello from Canada, new subscriber and I have a question. If the seeds do not come back to the original colour (pink ones shown) then how do you get true pink ones? I just love the soft pinks and apricots. Camelot Cream is one of my favourites as it was non stop blooming here in zone 6 until snow fell. I was so surprised it kept coming up with more stalks, I let it do it's thing. I did this shake, self seeding method and I literally have hundreds of tiny plants right now under the snow. I can see them when it melts. Can I move them once all risk of frost is gone? I would love to have them everywhere. I also noticed you said not to touch them but then you didn't wear gloves. I use latex gloves when handling or pruning them because it is hard to handle with gardening gloves. Happy Gardening :)

[@PetaniMudaAlpukatSiger]

Salam Petani Indonesia

[@noye_a81184]

I have foxglove here in Michigan. One thing to note is that they don't flower the first year (up here) they are green plants on the ground, they stay green through our harsh winters. The foxglove is also known as a poisonous species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is toxic to the heart.

[@laurenr27]

What type of bench table set up is that?!!

[@jetteravndal3930]

I love them, but they went in to my compost bin. I got Foxgloves in every pot this year. so this year they was put under my epeltree. :)

[@JRudy17]

This Spring was the first time I'd grown anything from seed, and I'm hooked! One of the flowers I started is Dalmatian Peach fox glove, a variety that blooms its first year. I ended up with 24 nice plants with beautiful peachy-pink spires. I hope they come back again next year, but if not, I'll definitely start more seeds.

[@elenikaouna1580]

Yes, I have sown seeds and now have hundrends of foxgloves seedlings, looking for advice on how to overwinter them in England, they are still small, are they going to survive outdoors...? 🤔

[@daiseegray9110]

I love foxglove, thanks for the tips! I need to collect some seeds.

[@defaultuser1447]

When I view UK content, I'm always getting new word differences with the US. Today was "secateur" for what we would call a "pruner" or "hand pruner". Lost in the Pond never covered that one. Maybe Laurance doesn't do much gardening.

[@AndreaAskraba]

Made me giggle when you started sparring with invisible fencers 🤺

[@marcycibu8277]

A couple questions....1. If i let them self seed will the seeds grow since i have the bed mulched with cedar mulch? 2. If i collect the seed and start them in a tray can i jyst transplant the seedlungs where i want and will they survive northern illinois winters?

[@J_bar_S_Photography]

My wife would love these flowers. She would love the apricot ones. i would love the blue colored ones. But i live in the states in north central texas. i wonder if they would grow well here?

[@momthrone]

I bought one from a nursery at year end sale in 2023. They bloomed in autumn and spring. They aren't finished yet, but a lot of the stems might just have seed pods. Not sure what to do. Heat wave here in Ontario Canada, July 3/24. Any advice appreciated!

[@kat1029]

I don't have any foxgloves at my allotment. I would love to have it, for the bees. I bought some seeds from garden centre previous years but none of them germinates. But l see them around here and there, perhaps the seeds quality wasn't good enough.

[@Sam-qq2ut]

lol random question, but where'd you get your pants from? they are so cute

[@ev1677]

Could you give us an update on whether the seeds you shook actually germinated?

[@bobbilynnmiller742]

After the seeds germinate in a container , how large of a seedling should they be before planting in the ground ? I’ve never been successful in starting my own , but hopefully after your wonderful video , I will!!

[@homegrowngarden]

My seeds have now germinated and I’ll be pricking them out and potting into individual pots when they have they their 2nd pair of leaves (the first true leaves). I’ll plant them out probably around October time once they’re a bit bigger, more of a plug plant and able to withstand any damage from slugs, but they shouldn’t really be an issue!

[@bobmarley6161]

Hello if I cut back the foxgloves after they have flowered... Will they produce another set of flowers this year... Thank you

[@kieronjames1187]

Where did you get that bench from 😍😍😍

[@homegrowngarden]

Facebook marketplace - my best freebie ever!

[@natalie6914]

Hi from the Midlands! Thanks for this handy little video 😃 I have a foxglove growing, it's lost some flowers and I'll leave it to go completely brown/dry before shaking seeds out but I have woodchip/bark in my beds. Can the seeds be shaken straight on top of that or will I need to rake back some of the woodchip and clear a patch for them wherever I want them to grow? Thanks in advance!

[@homegrowngarden]

There will be more chance if you rake it back but the seeds are tiny so I’m sure they will fall through and wash down enough with the rain 🙂

[@natalie6914]

@@homegrowngarden brilliant 😀 thank you for taking the time to reply!

[@MrGreenpaulo]

If the hybrids can't be sown from seeds, how do the nurseries do it? There's loads of named hybrids in the garden centre, someone must have propagated them somehow! Thanks!

[@thomaszaccone3960]

What is the best substrate for foxglove? I use a wood mulch in my flower beds

[@itsmewende]

They are my favorite as well, I seem to have a hard time growing them, what soil type do they like, maybe that's my problem =^\ I can't imagine having them as tall as some of yours, they are amazing. I will try try and try again.! I see someone over here in Florida grows them, I'm just up the coast in Maryland so I should be able to as well.

[@jackarnold6755]

Is there a way to get really tall foxgloves? I have failed to get one as tall as me since the first one.