Fox Glove
Years ago I bought my first fox glove from a man who had a stand and sold plants along route 6. I was with a friend who told me about fox glove and I liked it and bought two plants. I planted them in the flower bed at the side of our porch. They lived and I was happy with them. They never got very big, but I thought that was how they were supposed to be.
And then after some years, Carolyn became my back door neighbor and she immediately started changing the big, plain grassy lawn into a show place of beauty. And then I learned how beautiful fox glove can really be and that if a plant doesn't do well, it can be moved to another spot where it will do well.
Oddly enough, I thought once I'd planted it, it should stay there! Experimentally, after seeing what Carolyn did with her plants, I moved one of my fox gloves to a sunny spot. I was surprised at how it grew and thrived while the other plant remained puny. Soon I moved it to the sun, too. Since then, I have fox gloves in a number of places. The plants liked the new location and reseeded and many plants grew from them.
Today though, I have a couple of fox gloves near the archway trellis and though they are bigger than the puny pair that lived in the shadowy flower bed by the porch for many years, they are not big and robust and they certainly remind me of my first years of growing fox glove.
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