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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Sowalong - Foxglove with Emma Crawforth

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Brighten up shady spots and provide food for bees, with elegant foxgloves. Discover more in this short podcast. Plus get free seeds with our March, April and May issues. May also includes our 2 for 1 Gardens guide. Buy the magazine here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:06.0

It's all about proportions.

0:07.7

Abercrombie has their classic fits and athletic fits for guys who want a little more room in the thigh.

0:13.1

When you find your staple fit, it'll be the pair you reach for day after day for every plan.

0:19.2

Shop Abercrombie denim in the app, online and in store.

0:30.3

Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sew-A-Long series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.

0:50.6

Thank you. The podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed. Hello, I'm Emma, the horticultural editor of Gardener's World magazine.

0:55.0

Common Foxgloves or Digitalis bring many wonderful things to your garden,

1:01.0

not least of which is a splash of colour in a semi-shaded spot.

1:05.0

As woodland edge plants, they are really happy to grow in a corner where other flowers struggle.

1:11.6

However, they will also thrive in full sun to provide beautiful, spire-shaped accents

1:17.6

in a border of more rounded blooms.

1:20.6

Digitalis perpurea, the ancestor of varieties like Excelsior, is native to the UK, so it grows well in our gardens and supports

1:30.3

plenty of local wildlife. In particular, I love to see plump bumblebees working their way backwards

1:37.1

out of the flowers. They tend to visit each bloom on the spike in turn in a systematic

1:42.9

foraging exercise looking for pollen and

1:45.8

nectar. You might be surprised to know that foxgloves make great cut flowers. They were also

1:53.2

part of a range of folk medicine used to treat heart problems and provided the chemical key

1:59.0

to making modern heart drugs. However, like many medicinal plants, they're poisonous when wrongly used,

2:05.6

so do take care when handling them.

2:12.6

Common foxgloves join a special group of flowers I'm fond of called biennials, which means

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