Need a vote here....will rabbits eat Foxglove?

Fallbrook, CA(Zone 10b)

My nursery area is crowded and I'd love to plant these....but I don't want to be foolish, either! They're youngish and tender.
Sherry
edited to add that online info says foxglove is rabbit 'resistant'...I've learned that sometimes what is said to be 'resistant' isn't always so. I'm assuming that since digitalis is poisonous that I'm safe, but if just ONE of you says the rabbits ate yours, I'm not setting them out. What about gophers? Same hopes? That if it will kill them, we assume they're smart enough not to eat them?
What else I learned while looking this up is that apparently rabbits hate the smell of garlic, lavender, catnip/catmint. I'd already decided to divide my tulbaghia to plant small divisions around my wire-planted roses since being told that it helps deter gophers. If it helps to deter rabbits also,small clumps of society garlic woven in with the plantings may help with both critters. I already use catmint in most of my beds. The other info says the best 'homemade' rabbit repellant is the soiled cat litter from a cat who has killed and eaten wild animals. Of course, we can all see where that's going...one would have to follow the cat around to see what he's eating, then wait for the litter to be 'fortified'

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