Omg is this foxglove?

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I'm fairly certain I bought this last year but it never flowered or did anything. Now its growing back up but is it foxglove? I have been stroking the leaves!!!

I feel like I wouldn't have bought foxgloves

Picture?

Show us a pic!

Photo would help

It doesn’t look like a foxglove to me, we have many in our garden.

No, it's not a foxglove, not sure what it is though!

I think it's a weed that has small pink flowers, I pulled loads of it out of my garden last weekend.

Ok phew, I have stuck the pot out in the front garden and will see what it grows into

Definitely not a foxglove. They're taking over my garden since I planted one two years ago, and I spend ages pulling them all up as I now have a toddler granddaughter. I swear they appear overnight.

I was saying to my daughter the other day, that growing foxgloves for garden centres must be the easiest job in the world.

I think it might be a Brunnera of some sort.

If the leaves are a bit hairy and spiky it could be green alkanet. That looks similar to foxglove.

There’s an app called seek by a us university. You take a picture on yr phone of a plant and it identifies it.

It’s machine learning by the looks of it so the more people upload images the more others can search. I’ve tried yr image and it is saying it doesn’t recognise it and to try a different angle or close up - did recognise my aloe Vera though!🤣

I'm hoping it flowers soon! Might make it easier to identify

When you are stroking the leaves are they soft or a bit spikey? If they are spikey it’s either borage or that one like a big hairy forget me not

Download plantnet or plantfinder. They're free apps. Take a photo of the leaves, upload it, the app tells you what it is.

So far I've found plantnet better than plantfinder.

Looks like a crop of rosebay willowherb to me. Not poisonous as far as I know! But you'll want to pull it out before it seeds otherwise it will grow everywhere! Learned this myself last year.

I agree it's Rosebay Willow-Herb, based on my extensive knowledge of Flower Fairies books. People consider it a weed, it grows on rubble on railway embankments etc. It is pretty though!

Agree it looks more like some sort of willowherb than foxgloves unfortunately.

At least I think unfortunately, I love the foxgloves that appear self seeded around my garden. I wasn't sure if the OP for some reason thought they were a bad thing.

I pulled a gazillion willowherb seedlings from my vegetable beds yesterday and I don' think this one is a willowherb. In young willowherb plants there is no stem visible between the leaf and the central stem of the plant.

Have you got buddleia growing nearby?

I downloaded Plantnet and these are its suggestions

@ErrolTheDragon foxgloves are beautiful but really quite poisonous and as I have a cat (who will chomp down on things), I try to avoid poisonous plants in the back garden.

I do have what I lovingly call The Valley of Death in my front garden, where I house pretty plants I love but are safe from my cat. Here are two quite beautiful Dicentra out there and now this mystery plant.

I think it's fox glove and you need to thin the plants out.

Right so I went out now and took more of a close up and ran it through plantnet again. Its coming up with goldenrod which is ringing some very feint bells with me. The leaves are coming out of quite woody looking stems

It’s definitely not Rose Bay, which has smooth green leaves, longer and narrower than OP’s.

Golden rod also has smooth hairless leaves, whereas i’m getting the impression the new central leaves are downy.

Is it possible you bought a different variety of foxglove, eg an apricot flowered one?

I'm trying to remember what young greater willowherb looks like, might that be a possibility?