Foxglove Question

Did you buy seeds or plants? I think plants, if they're pretty advanced, will flower this year - biennials usually start growing one year, flower the next summer, then die. Seeds are unlikely to reach flowering point this summer.

plants Madmum.

They should flower this year :)

Hi I love growing Foxgloves..... make sure they don't become dried out & they'll keep going & self seed too.
J

When I bought plants they flowered the same year. Then they self seeded and I got plants the following year too.

Dee you should get flowers this year if the plant is big enough and it gets well established so make sure you water it well when the weather is hot.

Make sure also that you collect any seed from dried flowers this year when it does flower because with foxgloves once they have flowered they usually die so to keep them going each year you need to collect the seed{wear gloves as the seed pods as well as the plant are poisonous} and you can either sow the fine seed in trays of compost or do what I do and shake the pods round the garden where I want them to flower.

If you ever have white ones they will not produce white flowers from any seed collected so if you want more white ones you have to buy new plants.

Also if you buy these plants already in flower you need to save any seed as the plant will most certainly die afterwards

Good Luck and hope you have a good display...

there are perennial ones that flower year after year. Digitalis lutea is a yellow one but the flowers are small and pale.

Thanks everyone, youv'e been a Huge help to me as its a first for me growing foxgloves, i bought another one today, it has small speckly bits inside the flower, Im over the moon they will flower this year and ill have to read the labels properly seaburngirl to see i ive bought any Perennial's..Ill save the seeds also Tina2, thanks for all the info you gave me really helpfull..

My apologies Seaburngirl,I have just Googled and you are so right about Digitalis lutea.I hadn't heard of that one before so didn't realise that such a type exsisted.I shall have to keep an eye out for it....

Dee,I will have to sort through my photo's on PB when I get a chance and see if I have any photo's thta I can out up on here then you will see what other colours you can get them in....

That would be great Tina2.. thanks a bunch.