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Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: brownp on April 19, 2015, 10:38

Title: foxglove question
Post by: brownp on April 19, 2015, 10:38

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

Title: Re: foxglove question
Post by: mumofstig on April 19, 2015, 10:47

Foxgloves are biennials - only very occasionally do you get plants that flower for longer than that.

Title: Re: foxglove question
Post by: ARPoet on April 19, 2015, 12:15

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.

Title: Re: foxglove question
Post by: mumofstig on April 19, 2015, 12:26

I just leave them to it, it's not often I have a year without them  ;)

Title: Re: foxglove question
Post by: sunshineband on April 19, 2015, 15:50

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

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