They probably will flower next year as nut said above, but the flowers are nothing like as big or impressive. They're biennial plants so seed that the plants drop this year will only produce tiny plants this year then next year you get the huge flower spike
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
You have to learn what the seedlings look like to grow foxgloves. I've never planted one, I inherited these guys and just didn't weed them out. What I do is if they've done something magnificent like these did this year (some in the garden were over 6 feet), I pull them out and let the seedlings come through but I let them dry off first. I don't know if it's effective but I cut off the spike and throw it on the soil to let the seeds go back in and put the rest in the compost heap.
Next year I don't weed out the seedlings coming through. Towards the end of this year I expect to see larger rosettes coming through and getting ready for next year. Hope this makes sense.
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Sometimes they'll go on for another year but they're never as good in future years. I leave some to seed and dump the rest
In the sticks near Peterborough
I do the same as nut, then sprinkle the seed where I hope they'll grow the following year and see what happens
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I see those big pots of foxgloves in flower at GCs, not cheap, and no indication that they're most of the way through their life.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks, I thought that if you cut them down they flower next year. Thanks again
They probably will flower next year as nut said above, but the flowers are nothing like as big or impressive. They're biennial plants so seed that the plants drop this year will only produce tiny plants this year then next year you get the huge flower spike
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thank you.?
You have to learn what the seedlings look like to grow foxgloves. I've never planted one, I inherited these guys and just didn't weed them out. What I do is if they've done something magnificent like these did this year (some in the garden were over 6 feet), I pull them out and let the seedlings come through but I let them dry off first. I don't know if it's effective but I cut off the spike and throw it on the soil to let the seeds go back in and put the rest in the compost heap.
Next year I don't weed out the seedlings coming through. Towards the end of this year I expect to see larger rosettes coming through and getting ready for next year. Hope this makes sense.
That's impressive cloggie.
Thanks that sounds a good idea.