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is this a weed?

No, it's a foxglove and looks as if it's a white one. They can be a bit like weeds if they are where you don't want them, but are very easy to pull up. I love them.

Thanks I suspected it might be.  I wish I had a few more in the garden

You will have next year, each flower can produce a million seeds!

Yup, I have several varieties, as well as the common one in the garden, and they are everywhere.  Not complaining though!  They are now springing up around the allotment, maybe from the compost heap.  Again, no complaint, I have been cutting those and they look amazing in a large vase! 

When they open, take a really good long look inside the flowers.  Amazing!

A weed is only a plant in the wrong place!
I have foxgloves in one or two strange places!
;D

Its amazing how that foxgove got there its quite far from where I have had them in the past and just in a bit of gravel in the patio.  Tempted to move it as we are having a new gate put in very near to it but worried it might not survive.  Would have to pay £5-£6 for it in a garden centre

It really won't take to transplanting, not in this heat anyway, I transplant some against my back wall on the allotment, but they are never happy there, it is way too hot/sunny for them!
;D

Sorry AB, but I don't think your plant is a foxglove.  Foxgloves have a base florette of leaves, and throw up a flower spike from this base.  Your photo is of a plant with leaves quite a way up the stem.  I would guess that this plant could be a member of the campanula family, but doubtfully a foxglove.

Happy to be proved wrong!

valmarg

Def. a foxglove, the flowers should be open by now, and a photo of that would settle it!
8)

Absolutely a foxglove.  I grow common, lutea and a couple of teeny flowered species foxys, and they are all slightly different, but that is defo a foxglove.  Some of mine from the allotment had leaves up the stems to the base of the flowers, which is handy when I cut them for a vase as they support eachother nicely.

Indisputably a foxglove, I should say.  All of mine (white ones) have leaves going up to the base of the flowers, per EJ but my campanulas are flowering on stems some way above their leaves.

I had a foxglove once called - not sure - springwood or spotiswood??? :-\

... it was an unuasal find with two pointy bits on the lower petal of the flower - obviously with spots

Any one know it and the name!! ?  ???

They are a little bit toxic,but i love them too,got them also in the garden.They are even in a hanging basket from last year.

I've found it  "Saltwood"

http://www.crocus.co.uk/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=2000003653&affiliate=td

would anybody have one of these that I could have some seed from  ??? :-\ :)

It's more than 'a little poisonous' but it produces a very important heart medicine; there's a page on its history here http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/Wilson/481/medbot/bot2.htm .

There you go - and its a pink one

Loverley!  And if you want some seeds for a white one let me know by PM.

Beautiful. I see you got your gate too  ;D

Yes thanks to excellent and careful joiner