I have enjoyed foxgloves for the last several years, staring with a packet of seeds that grew thousands of babies! I couldn't believe that so many seeds had actually germinated out of that one little packet! It hurt to kill off so many but by the end of the first summer I had about 30 baby rosettes. The following year I just enjoyed them and didn't think about the next season. Fortunately they self seeded a few here and there through my flower beds so I had enough the next year. Last year I had several that had to be divided as they had grown 2 or 3 together. This year I noticed that my big Momma plants have started growing babies all along the stalk and I don't know quite how to divide them. I tried cutting the stalk and treating them the way I would a daylily scape....just sticking them in the ground, packing dirt around the stalk and watering them in well. Soon I will have to start a foxglove farm! If there is a better way to do this I would welcome any suggestions.

So jealous. I struggle with foxglove for some reason. But I do love them so just treat them as an expensive annual. I've even tried gathering the seed of my roadside natives, no luck.

I hadn't seen this before. Layering them seems like a good idea.

I grew some from seed, winter sowing the seeds. The plants bloomed their second year and the following year. Then I moved. Need to wintersow seeds again...

The wild foxgloves are biennial. So the plants that are two years old, probably will not return, but they do seed freely. Bonehead, I transplanted a bunch in my garden years ago. I got three out of probably twelve that graced my garden for years. The wild plants really go crazy on freshly logged sites, so I really roughed up the soil around them when seeds were falling. They are such a beautiful plant.