Triffid Joy

Back at the beginning of 2021 I planted some foxglove seeds (and they are the tiniest of seeds too). They were potted up and popped outside ... and after extensive care and nurturing (or benign neglect as some might call it) one of them flowered in 2022. It was just a normal sized foxglove with a normal amount of flowers:

The other plants which were planted out last spring just got bigger and bigger and became huge leafy clumps. Even part way through this spring I was beginning to wonder if I had just been taking care of some random weed. They began to get tall and finally put out flower spikes. Then they began to fall over so I had to tie them to the wall. Then they got even taller. They loom over us as we try and go out of the back door and block the path to the yard. I kept breaking the leaves off as I squeezed past, but it didn't seem to mind. The tallest one is now a good 18 inches taller than the wall.

They are thick with flowers

And they even have many little side shoots coming from the leaf nodes that have flower spikes of their own:

And in the last week the bees have arrived😊

Stay safe. Be kind. Patience is a virtue as well as an opera.