foxglove question

Hi
A friend of mine planted some foxgloves and they came last year with a good show. She has asked me to find out whether the mother plant should appear this year as there is no sign of it yet...is that usual?
thanks
Phil

I always collect some of the seed pods so that i have some to plant out the following year. One seed pod has 100s of fine seeds in them.

I left one to many to it and have four square metres of plants filling my giant cloche 

Can't rehome that quantity and I can't leave them there -- the chilli plants won't appreciate it and the flower spikes will be taller than the cloche 

These are seedlings from last Autumn -- the main plant usually dies away once it has ripened seed