Foxy plants
FOXGLOVES are wonderfully useful garden plants —hardy, prolific and beautiful. Smart journalists will tell you that ‘they give vertical interest’, but I love the way they make a perfect foil for floppy old-fashioned roses. Our native foxglove, , is a plant of hedgerows and woodlands. My grandparents had a fine woodland garden and they encouraged white foxgloves to seed around. You can tell white ones long before they flower, because pink ones have a purplish tinge to the leaf-stalks.
