Identification help please :)

[Shaydee]

Hi guys, I'm new to this forum and this is my 2nd year gardening.

I found this pretty plant where I want to grow my peas, but I haven't got a clue what it is. It just popped up over winter and doesn't seem bothered in the slightest by all the snow and hail.

I wondered if anyone might know.what it is so I can decide whether to eat it, move it or compost it.

The way the stems grow up from a centre point reminds me of rhubarb a little.

Thanks!

[Containergardener]

Foxglove ?

[WendyC]

Another vote for foxglove. It will flower this year and probably die, not before shedding thousands and thousands of tiny seeds everywhere. So you'll have plenty more. If you take a big enough rootball and keep it well watered, it will move ok.

[muddled]

Hello Shaydee, welcome to the vine!

Foxgloves are beautiful (and deadly poisonous) and biennial. They will self seed but next year there will small plants but no flowers.
Bees love them.

[Shaydee]

Thanks!

Yes you are all right, now I know what to look for it seems it's definitely a foxglove!

I'm still deciding whether to keep it or not... I try to only grow food in my garden but the flowers are absolutely beautiful.

Oh well, I have plenty of time to decide! Thanks so much for all the help answering my noob question.

[muddled]

You'll much better pollination and more pleasure with a few flowers thrown in...

(Oops! just read that back and it sounds like a euphemism )

[lottie dolly]

They are lovely with mixed colors in a group,very majestic,but as said,the odd plant here and there are benifitial to your eyes and the pollinators,

[Jay-ell]

***WARNING***

Foxgloves are the home of the Fairies and it is considered bad luck to disturb the plant