Foxgloves

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I mentioned in another post somewhere that I was really excited to find some baby foxglove plants this Spring to plant in my new garden. It's under the old apple trees in front of my house, and a perfect place to make some neat gardens for things that prefer some shade in the Summer.

Anyway, the plants were growing like mad, and I had them mulched heavily, but lots of other weeds grew up very tall around them after I hurt my back and couldn't do any mowing.

I was fairly heartsick about it.

I finally got out yesterday with the walk-behind string trimmer (a rolling weed eater on steroids), and knocked down the weeds almost inch by inch so I wouldn't muscle in and get the plants by accident. I found all but one and the exciting news is....a couple are getting ready to bloom. One looks like it might be light yellow and the other has buds too tight to even guess yet.

As they begin to unfold, I'll take some pictures.

Foxgloves are truly magical flowers, and the lore that goes with them is really enchanting.

And...did you know that's what was used to treat some heart conditions in the old herbal days? They are digitalis.... Not at all recommended to mess around with, but once again, healing medicines began with the wild flowers of the woods.

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