Yes, nutcutlet is right - a cold frame is fine Dirty Harry - as she says, they can be quite warm on a sunny day, and keep the wind and damp off the plants.
Now those seedlings do look good - healthy young plants, they may flower this year depending where they are to be planted - you must keep us updated Dirty Harry.
I have foxgloves around the garden at different stages, some almost in flower now and others at the 4 leaf stage so they probably won't flower until next year. I would like to think your healthy little plants will produce flowers later in the summer.
Can I please ask a Q reg Fixgloves on this thread. Today i went to the Spring plant fair at RHS Wisley and bought some foxgloves. Mainly because the plants look big enough to be in their 2nd year, so i am hoping to get some flowers this summer.
The seller (who came down from Yorkshire) told me that i can keep them “outside now” and that they flower every 2nd year. Hence they are called Biennials. I dont think that’s true, I expect them to die down after this year. Anyone else got a different experience?
Also how safe is it to keep these pot plants outside (I am in South eat)?
Foxglove are biennials which means if they were sown last year they will flower this year before setting seed and dying. They grow like weeds on my allotment, if they were sown indoors or under cover they'll need hardening off though, but next years seedlings are ok left in the ground over winter. Mine self seed and are moved into a nursery bed for the winter before being transplanted to where I want them to flower in the spring.
Now those seedlings do look good - healthy young plants, they may flower this year depending where they are to be planted - you must keep us updated Dirty Harry.
These definitely ain't the same as typical foxgloves, I'd forgotten how wide they were! No doubt even more so for this being their second year for flowers. The 2 parent plants just now-
As such I've taken 3 of the new plants out as it's getting tight for space. Wouldn't have normally thought of putting them in pots but I saw a picture of foxgloves in a container in a book recently so why not, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Not like they'll be in short supply...
Good for you Harry, gardening is all about trial and error, and they cost you next to nothing - I would like to see a picture when they are in flower. The first picture shows some really nice foxgloves - I will be surprised if the flower stems are very tall when mature, but from what I can see they should be in flower for quite a while with so many flowering stems forming.
The flowers ended up flopping right over last year on them, hopefully with another full year under their belt to properly establish a good root system won't see that again as they weren't very tall anyway.
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Wonder if there's a chance of flowers later in the year.
The seller (who came down from Yorkshire) told me that i can keep them “outside now” and that they flower every 2nd year. Hence they are called Biennials. I dont think that’s true, I expect them to die down after this year. Anyone else got a different experience?
Also how safe is it to keep these pot plants outside (I am in South eat)?
Thanks for any input
As such I've taken 3 of the new plants out as it's getting tight for space. Wouldn't have normally thought of putting them in pots but I saw a picture of foxgloves in a container in a book recently so why not, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Not like they'll be in short supply...