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Biennial? And the rest!

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
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I was thrilled when the further of the two foxgloves in the first picture arrived uninvited in 2015, the year after we moved here. Especially as it was in a border where my long-term plan is to plant native shrubs to create something like a country hedgerow.  It flowered the next year, and the next, and the next. The nearer clump is its offspring, and the single spike in the other picture is its grandchild.  I've given away loads of seeds, so goodness knows how many descendants it has.

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There are many perennial fgs....
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    So there are!  I assumed all the cultivated foxgloves had been developed from Digitalis purpurea, but after reading your comment, I googled foxglove, and the genus Digitalis comprises about 20 species.  So thank you Fire, I've learned something useful.  I was hoping mine would eventually revert to the wild type, but maybe they're a different species.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Those won’t revert but their seeds probably will. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Thanks Lyn, that was what I meant.  Though the latest generation has turned out paler.
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