foxgloves stopped blooming

by Vicki
(Pennsylvania)

My foxgloves were beautifully bloomed when I planted them about a month ago and now they have all brown buds on them and no flowers. What went wrong? They are in shade half day and sun half day. How often should I water? Why won't more flowers grow?

Doug says that there's a bloomtime with this plant and when it's done - it's done and over for this year. You got it. Now you have to crush the seedpods when they're good and hard and ripe and spread the seed where you want to see them bloom.

Remember that this is a biennial - it grows in year one - flowers in year two and then dies. So you constantly have to have new plants coming along to keep them around in your garden.

But the bloom time is about 6- weeks long and that's all she wrote for each year.