Thanks, it was a good show this year. I have the same problem chrissieB with baby Honesty. I love Honesty but I have a weed that I don't know the name of that looks exactly like it so I keep weeding both out. I only found that out this year and so I'm letting them both grow a bit longer to try and recognise the difference.
I leave the rattles to go dry and then give them a shake if it's not already windy. I then cut them down and just leave the leaves and, when they're starting to go yellow, pull some up and cut others back.
Come Spring I have to thin them out as I literally have a carpet of them under my trees - and there isn't room for so many to mature.
Once you get them going they will seed in all corners of your garden and each year you'll have a display in slightly different places.
Yes I'm finding the same as Tracey K, it's great that the display shifts around the garden - been here 3 and a half years, don't remember the first year because it was a chaotic undergrowth out there (I only remember the Olympic sized brambles) but the next year there was a lovely display, then the 2nd it was somewhere else and this year as above and none in places where they were last year.
I have a similar relationship with forget me nots. I don't weed them out and get a fabulous unifying display that fills all the holes in the planting, it's great. Here's a juvenile bed that I recently extended and was chuffed that the FMNs filled in the bare soil.
Has anyone tried some of the foxglove varieties described as perennial? Are they short lived perennials or do they have the potential to last several years with a good display.
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Thanks, it was a good show this year. I have the same problem chrissieB with baby Honesty. I love Honesty but I have a weed that I don't know the name of that looks exactly like it so I keep weeding both out. I only found that out this year and so I'm letting them both grow a bit longer to try and recognise the difference.
I leave the rattles to go dry and then give them a shake if it's not already windy. I then cut them down and just leave the leaves and, when they're starting to go yellow, pull some up and cut others back.
Come Spring I have to thin them out as I literally have a carpet of them under my trees - and there isn't room for so many to mature.
Once you get them going they will seed in all corners of your garden and each year you'll have a display in slightly different places.
Thank you that's sounds good to me.
Yes I'm finding the same as Tracey K, it's great that the display shifts around the garden - been here 3 and a half years, don't remember the first year because it was a chaotic undergrowth out there (I only remember the Olympic sized brambles) but the next year there was a lovely display, then the 2nd it was somewhere else and this year as above and none in places where they were last year.
I have a similar relationship with forget me nots. I don't weed them out and get a fabulous unifying display that fills all the holes in the planting, it's great. Here's a juvenile bed that I recently extended and was chuffed that the FMNs filled in the bare soil.
Has anyone tried some of the foxglove varieties described as perennial? Are they short lived perennials or do they have the potential to last several years with a good display.
do you mean varieties of our native foxglove?
Or the ?perennial but tender hybrids Illumination Pink etc?
Or other species of digitalis, like D.lutea and D. grandiflora
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I had D.ferruginea for about four-years on the trot ; then gave up and died . (Short-lived perennial).
D. grandiflora has been the longest survivor for me.
There are always seedlings though, like the D. purpurea.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've had D.lutea for 11 years and it's still going strong.
with that one I've lost track of how old the plants are, it's a good seeder
In the sticks near Peterborough