aaaahhhh foxgloves such a curious family of flowers. you are lucky to get such a bumper crop of seedlings!! just plant them about 8 - 10 inches apart so you have a rather thick drift of them going.
i would give them partial shade.... meaning a little more sun than shade all day. divide your seedlings into 2 groups one 5 count and maybe one 7 if you have enough .... another smaller group if you have more.
'one trick to keeping foxgloves. hollyhocks and other biennials is to deadhead the plant before the spent flower stalk goes to seed. take it off at the base of the plant in the basal foliage clump. the mother plant freaks out and thinks ohhh noooooooo there goes my babies!!! drat!! now i have to come back next year and do all this all over so i can leave some babies as that is my mission in life to fulfill!!! so the plant comes backs and does the 2 yr cycle again in the hopes of making babies for posterity.
you can fool the poor little darlings up to 7 or 8 yrs this way.

they look good with ligularias and with hardy geranium sanguineums like new england hampshires or claridge druce
or hostas or kirengishoma palmatum ( yellow wax bells),
aconitums, ferns, wood poppies, heucheras, epimediums and all kinds of shade plants!
there are some perennial varieties of foxglove too that are not as tall or as showy but are still very pretty plants.

If you take off the big spire once the foxies have flowered, then the plant will often send out side shoots and keep flowering over the summer.

The seed pods ripen lower on the stem while the top is still flowering (on the 'common' variety) and open to shed seed whenever the wind blows. Usually into pots of something delicate that doesn't like disturbance.

If you find you like a particular colour, it pays to take out all those not pleasing so you end up with a more uniform patch.

They'll definitely grow in sunshine but not so tall as they do in open, light shade. A good mulch that holds moisture over the drier months ensures you get the 5-6 foot spires.
Bumble bees really enjoy them.

Do remind small people who might want to use the flowers as finger puppets that Digitalis is poisonous. Please wash hands after playing with the flowers.

The flowers on my foxgloves have not developed into the long tubular flowers that they are supposed to --- we've had a very dry spring in zone 6, could the lack of moisture cause this? They get dappled sun throughout the day.... The plants are very tall and abundant, had to pull some out as they were smothering my siberian iris. However, I'm disappointedd that do not have the beautiful spikes, with tubular flowers.

Any help is much appreciated.

wildgardener, is it the first year? foxgloves are biennial. the leaves develop the first year & the flower-spires appear the next year.

gosh. i feel so cool for actually being able to toss off a tidbit of hopefully-useful info here among all the knowledgable garden folk :0)

marie of roumania

it is the second year and there are droopy spires of flowers, not tall and spiked like they are supposed to be.
:-)
wildgardener

Found something neat about foxgloves. They wintersow very nicely. I did just two milk jugs and got lots of beautiful seedlings. Thanks for the tip on deadheading. Now I know why it didn't return. Figured if I just let those seeds fall I'd get more in the spring-didn't happen.

I have removed a foxglove plant from a large pot and want to plant something else in the pot. DO I need to remove all the soil and refill the pot? I thought the Foxglove might contaminate the soil.

If the foxglove had been there for a while (months) and had flourished, then it's probably wise to at least refresh the potting mix. After a while potting mix starts to break down into finer humus and the drainage becomes less efficient so it definitely pays to replace the soil for a new planting.

You might also find in a big pot that, if the roots of the foxglove didn't spread all through, some of the mix lower down in the pot will be quite compacted and even sour. Not worth taking a chance with, IMO.

Help. I planted a foxglove in the spring where it gets full sun in the afternoon and it is doing terribly. I followed the planting instructions and it looked fine until a heavy rain. It fell over, so I staked it up, but it never recovered. It is stringy and dry looking. It grows along the ground so the flowers are at the soil level. It isn't mulched. I was watering it regularly but stopped when I thought it was getting too MUCH water. Not enough water now? Could it be something else?

I just bought a camelot rose foxglove plant today and I immediately planted it in a pot in less than an hour. The pot is a little over a foot tall and the plant is almost 3 ft tall. It was beautiful and sturdy. Lots of dark green leave and just starting to bloom. That was around 9 am. I left it with a bunch of my other full sun loving plants outside (all of which are doing fabulously) because it said 6 plus hours. By the time I came home from work at 5:30, the plant was in the shade. It was so droopy and and the leaves lost all shape and the stalks drooped so bad. I did not water it at all since it says to keep the soil moist but not wet. And the potting soil I used to fill the pot was already moist. Please help! I've had this plant less than 24 hours and I'm so worried for it! I've never had a foxglove before

Sorry, but you did just about everything wrong for your poor foxglove ;-( Any plant needs a through watering when first planted even if the soil is moist. A fully leafed out 3 foot plant placed in full sun with no additional water will transpire at a tremendous rate and the disturbed roots will be unable to start taking up water unless they are surrounded by plenty of moisture. Foxglove is not a full sun loving plant. It's natural habitat is woodland edges and hedge banks.

Deluge the soil with water, put it in the shade and cross your fingers.

Unfurling digitalis.

i know these things are biennial but do they deffo die after flowering the second year?

Mine flowered the year I bought it as a wee sprout, then it seeded to create many sprogs.

After a mild uk winter I now have lots of happy seedlings (bottom of pic) but also what looks like the original plant sending out another spike (top of pic inside reaised bed).

The variety is Snow Thimble and it was a cracker. The label says perennial but I suspect that's marketing bollocks.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see but I'd be pleased if nature has staggered the flowering for me. I have around a hundred seedlings so next year the bees will be buzzing.