I'd probably amend with horse manure and mulch with leaves (or more horse manure). Foxgloves aren't real picky, though, I have them everywhere.

Foxglove doesn't really strike me as a plant that will hold its own alone all season - the foliage looks pretty awful come late June or so. Are you planning to mix them with something else?

leslies has a good point, I love foxgloves as much as anyone and grow them in raised beds myself but her point about looking kinda ragged come June or so is right....In a bed it's a good idea to have something else to take up the slack so to speak....

Paul from Alabama

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Oh I will have more things in the bed than foxglove. Paul what is that beautiful pale lavender foxglove all the way to the right? Your plants are beautiful! Thanks, Sybil

Paul,

That's beautiful! What are names of the roses growing in the back?

Sybil....It's an 'Excelsior' but to tell the truth as much as I like them, and they are tall and magnificent, you never know what color you're going to get with that series, at least I've never seen any small starts or seeds that were marketed other than 'mixed' but that's just my experience.....My favorite is Alba, an almost pure white one....Green Mountain Transplants have a nice selection of foxgloves that are small starts and most but not all have to go through one cold period (I forget what you call that period botanically) before blooming....Most of mine are two years old and are blooming now in that bed. Thinking of ordering some in August if possible and put them in early fall and they they should bloom next spring everything being equal.....

Paul from Alabama

bellarosa,

thanks so much, glad you like them.....They're 'Zephrine Drouhin'....a Bourbon class rose, its thornless and has a great spring flush.....I've read it has a good fall one too but haven't experienced that myself yet and have read where some folks haven't gotten the fall flush they expected but were so happy and tickled with the spring one they didn't care, hey put me in that class too I reckon.....

Paul from Alabama