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.
Any idea why the stems are curling like that, especially the top photo?
I had some beautiful white foxgloves a few years ago and sometimes replant the seedlings where I want them. They are pink nowadays and look more like native ones, but they are still pretty and the bees love them too.
@Dirty Harry. Your foxgloves look like Summer King, if they self seed they will probably come true, for the 1st generation anyway. They do seem to curl but will straighten. Did I send you seeds last year?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
There are plenty of variations on the foxglove now, they are a plant that evokes childhood memories for me, and perhaps many others on this forum - in their most basic colour and form (I mean the foxglove not us).
@Dirty Harry. Your foxgloves look like Summer King, if they self seed they will probably come true, for the 1st generation anyway. They do seem to curl but will straighten. Did I send you seeds last year?
They are x mertonensis plants I planted last spring. The ones I seeded look to be true given how wide they're getting.
The flower stems started straight and have now curled.
They might need just some more water now they are flowering (unless you've had buckets of rain of course). I'm really envious, I keep trying to grow them but they don't seem to like it here!
Posts
Any idea why the stems are curling like that, especially the top photo?
They do seem to curl but will straighten. Did I send you seeds last year?
The flower stems started straight and have now curled.
First container one to flower, I reckon it works quite well.