Solved Foxglove or Penstemon?

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    My cousin has sent me this photo and asked what it is, she's been told Penstemon but looks like foxglove to me. The colour is yellow. FB_IMG_1655713134051.jpg
     
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      Thanks @Spruce Just a little unsure as I've never grown Penstemon.
       
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        No expert in foxgloves but it looks like Digitalis grandiflora to me!

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          That's the one I told her I thought it was, tough as old boots I've read so that would suit because she's a really awful garderner:heehee:
           
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            ...who hopefully doesn't read this forum! :whistle::biggrin:

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              Digitalis lutea, yellow foxglove. A short lived perrenial here if flowering shoots trimmed off soon after flowering. I leave one shoot cut in half for seed.
               
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