Depends which one Beaus Mum, some are Hardy Biennial some are Hardy Perennial. I usually grow them from seed in January in a propagator to get them to flower in the first year. With plug plants you'll generally want to grow them on in pots and plant them out in the autumn for flowering next year.
Most foxgloves are biennial, so form leaves first year, then flower second year, and then die.
There are however some lovely perennial forms. I grow D. ferruginea, which has browny yellow flowers [ and is much prettier than I have described it ] D. lutea is alsdo lovely.
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There is a little trick with the biennial ones, if you cut off the flower stem to the base, just after flowering and before it can produce seeds, it may well flower again the next year. It isn't usually done I guess because they seed so freely, but worth knowing in some situations. I like to grow the odd specimen foxglove in a pot and will do this to keep it going.
Hi guys my foxglove plantlets are still only little button size I have grown them from seeds(called silver Fox I think lost packet) taken the last out of the propagator this morning. Should I treat them like biennial s ?I suppose they are to behind for flowers this year?
Hi guys my foxglove plantlets are still only little button size I have grown them from seeds(called silver Fox I think lost packet) taken the last out of the propagator this morning. Should I treat them like biennial s ?I suppose they are to behind for flowers this year?
Yep, grow them on in pots for the summer, plant out in Autumn for flowering next year.
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decent sized plugs might well do. I've always grown mine from seed.
Think you are more patient than me though hosta
Don't they flower alternate years?
Depends which one Beaus Mum, some are Hardy Biennial some are Hardy Perennial. I usually grow them from seed in January in a propagator to get them to flower in the first year. With plug plants you'll generally want to grow them on in pots and plant them out in the autumn for flowering next year.
Most foxgloves are biennial, so form leaves first year, then flower second year, and then die.
There are however some lovely perennial forms. I grow D. ferruginea, which has browny yellow flowers [ and is much prettier than I have described it ] D. lutea is alsdo lovely.
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There is a little trick with the biennial ones, if you cut off the flower stem to the base, just after flowering and before it can produce seeds, it may well flower again the next year. It isn't usually done I guess because they seed so freely, but worth knowing in some situations. I like to grow the odd specimen foxglove in a pot and will do this to keep it going.
Hi guys
my foxglove plantlets are still only little button size I have grown them from seeds(called silver Fox I think lost packet) taken the last out of the propagator this morning. Should I treat them like biennial s ?I suppose they are to behind for flowers this year?
Thank you for all your replies but I'm getting more confused now
Think I need to grow from seed for next year and this year buy plants 
Sorry to be confusing Beaus Mum.
Plug plants will be tiny compared to ones germinated and grown on in January.
So January sown can go out in April/May and could flower in a single season. If they don't, they will flower the next year.
Plug plants and ones sown a bit later should be potted on and grown through the summer and planted in Autumn to flower the following year.
If you want them to definitely flower this year, buy the larger plants.
That's all there is to it.
Superstar thank you Gemma
All clear now 
Yep, grow them on in pots for the summer, plant out in Autumn for flowering next year.