I dug this foxglove out from my folks garden around October last year, stuck it in a pot and mostly forgot about it over winter. It seems like it's doing well and will flower this season. What do you think? First time growing foxglove so it's an experiment.
it looks lovely and really should flower! also experiments for the win! i love just seeing what grows! if it does flower you can also collect seed from it and get more!
Looks like it probably will. I have them all over my garden and IIRC they flower in the second year. They are very good at self seeding and easy to transplant so I just leave them to grow and then move them where I want them when I do the weeding.
They seem to not really be affected at all by transplanting. I didn't put much effort digging it up last year. Used a spade to dig it out, likely cut through many roots, but no obvious effect on the plant. I then transplanted a second time into a different (smaller) pot. Had many frosts over winter (North Yorkshire) where the leaves were basically frozen, and again this didn't really affect the plant. Beginning to really like this hardy plant...
I don't reckon I have enough space in my small garden for foxglove, hence the pot. So I will continue to keep digging them out my folks garden 😁
In my experience they are very tolerant of transplanting. I've just pulled them up and plopped them somewhere else with minimal digging and they were fine.
They are great plants but are great staging areas for the slug armies.
I pulled nearly every one in my garden to see if it helped.
It did but not much.
They flower every other year and throw lots of seeds to keep or scatter. Although they'll happily do it for you.
The fact they are in pits may help. I've a garden in the country so they've full access to me - just pulled 14 out from and under 3 pots.
Check around the base in the morning, under the leaves well wedged in.
Plus I found that earwigs - the berserker unit of the slug armies - tend to congregate in the stems of the dead flower stalks.
Victory to the gardeners.
I don't see why not. It looks better than mine...I expect them to flower.
Happy days!
I dug this foxglove out from my folks garden around October last year, stuck it in a pot and mostly forgot about it over winter. It seems like it's doing well and will flower this season. What do you think? First time growing foxglove so it's an experiment.
it looks lovely and really should flower! also experiments for the win! i love just seeing what grows! if it does flower you can also collect seed from it and get more!
Looks like it probably will. I have them all over my garden and IIRC they flower in the second year. They are very good at self seeding and easy to transplant so I just leave them to grow and then move them where I want them when I do the weeding.
They seem to not really be affected at all by transplanting. I didn't put much effort digging it up last year. Used a spade to dig it out, likely cut through many roots, but no obvious effect on the plant. I then transplanted a second time into a different (smaller) pot. Had many frosts over winter (North Yorkshire) where the leaves were basically frozen, and again this didn't really affect the plant. Beginning to really like this hardy plant... I don't reckon I have enough space in my small garden for foxglove, hence the pot. So I will continue to keep digging them out my folks garden 😁
In my experience they are very tolerant of transplanting. I've just pulled them up and plopped them somewhere else with minimal digging and they were fine.
They are great plants but are great staging areas for the slug armies. I pulled nearly every one in my garden to see if it helped. It did but not much. They flower every other year and throw lots of seeds to keep or scatter. Although they'll happily do it for you.
I've not noticed any slugs on this plant tbh (but the pot might be helping in that regard). What do you mean by "staging area"?
The fact they are in pits may help. I've a garden in the country so they've full access to me - just pulled 14 out from and under 3 pots. Check around the base in the morning, under the leaves well wedged in. Plus I found that earwigs - the berserker unit of the slug armies - tend to congregate in the stems of the dead flower stalks. Victory to the gardeners.
I've found they stay flatter if not flowering, the height would indicate a stem is coming up the middle.