{"id":19767,"date":"2018-12-30T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19767"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:51:12","slug":"five-foxglove-facts-for-new-gardeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/five-foxglove-facts-for-new-gardeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Foxglove Facts for New Gardeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"foxgloves\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4699672396_d09d895183.jpg\" alt=\"foxgloves\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A colony of Foxgloves not a skulk or earth as in Foxes<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In the first year of growing from seed foxgloves produce a rosette of leaves but no flower as they are a true biennial.<\/li>\n<li>In the second summer they produce a\u00c2\u00a0 spike of flowers mainly round three quarters of the circumference. After that they usually die or produce a poor plant in the third year. To compensate they produce a prolific amount of seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting off the first flower spike will encourage several smaller new flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Self sown foxgloves tend to flower in purple shades irrespective of the parent plants.<\/li>\n<li>As woodland plants the leaves can look a bit tatty particularly in dry spots.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For a yellow foxglove: see: <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/yellow-foxgloves-digitalis-lutea\/\">Yellow Foxgloves<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colony of Foxgloves not a skulk or earth as in Foxes In the first year of growing from seed foxgloves produce a rosette of leaves but no flower as they are a true biennial. In the second summer they produce a\u00c2\u00a0 spike of flowers mainly round three quarters of the circumference. After that they usually die or produce a poor plant in the third year. To compensate they produce a prolific amount of seeds. Cutting off the first flower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/five-foxglove-facts-for-new-gardeners\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novice-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19769,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions\/19769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}