You’re right, foxgloves are poisonous. So are delphiniums, ivy, tomato leaves and a very great many other common garden plants. As the loving grandmother of someone who puts everything she finds interesting into her 14 month old mouth, I think it’s safer to work on keeping the kids away from the plants than the other way ’round.

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welcome, thanks for the kind words and congrats on the bounty of foxgloves. Plants often grow multiple babies in their skirts and these sometimes have enough root to make it on their own. But they do better if you just leave them be to replace the mother when she expires in a year or two. Self-seeded independents will be stronger than split-off transplants and it sounds as though you’ll have plenty. They usually self-thin, too, but it never hurts to give young plants breathing room.

In other words, you can divide them, but it’s scarcely worth it. And just for the record hostas and foxgloves are pretty much at opposite ends of the tough plant/longevity scale.

Foxglove flower stalks that have fallen over from the weight of rain ( but are not broken) will pick themselves up - but only as far as various languid attitudes. If you want them to stand up straight you’ll have to stake them… and it’s worth giving them that help if they remain close to the ground. Left to lie there, they’ll soon be eaten ragged by slugs and snails.