Don't have anywhere else for them so may skip them next year.
Once you've planted foxgloves you've got them forever. They'll soon decide where they want to grow and you'll probably find the self-seeded ones are more sturdy. If you planted them this year they wouldn't have had a chance to get their roots established in their non-flowering year.
@Fire mine are still going at the moment and last year one kept flowering into december. Some will flower 2 or 3 years in a row if you let them.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I rather like the way some of our foxgloves wind and wander about ... but then I'm interested in drawing them and they make more interesting pictures than the ones that go straight up and down
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine got so slugged this year that most didn't make to "adulthood". I put them back pots with a few shredded leaves. They have slowly grown on, but they haven't done any flowering. I asked on the forum a few months ago and some people said they might act as seedlings for next year.
I did also sprinkle seed on the beds in the early summer, but no seedlings have come up. I'm thinking foxgloves might not like gardens much. Plus, if they are going to get devoured I'm not going to spend effort trying to get them going. My (failed) plan has to try and get everything out of pots and into the ground.
That’s what I was wondering Fire, this years plants next year’s flowers. The seeds you sprinkle this year will need the cold winter the germinate next spring, they may flower the same year or may flower the following year, seeds growing is a very long process, you have to think two years ahead.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'm inundated with seedlings, which will produce plants at various times. There's probably several hundred [or thousand!] around my hydrangea in the front garden. I'll weed out loads of them, but they're providing a useful support for a few plants at the moment. I've pulled most of the original plants out as they were starting to cross, and become like the native ones, instead of white, or white with purple spotting. The ones in the back garden are still white, so they're fine. You'll probably find yours will seed around Harry, so you may as well leave them and see what happens. You can always pull them out, as I've done. They're not deep rooted.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I don’t, they sometimes make little side rosettes on the main plant but I never find them very striking, I sow new seeds every year to keep the rotation going. If you cut the seed head right off, the main plant may build up some goodness for next year but I don’t bother. I collect some seeds and buy some, then whatever reverts to the wild plain pink I can pull out and still have the bought ones as replacements.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You'll probably find yours will seed around Harry, so you may as well leave them and see what happens. You can always pull them out, as I've done. They're not deep rooted.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you cut the seed head right off, the main plant may build up some goodness for next year but I don’t bother.
I collect some seeds and buy some, then whatever reverts to the wild plain pink I can pull out and still have the bought ones as replacements.