@ju1i3 - Yes you're right. I'm afraid that I worry over the garden as a novice and having bought all of these plants! Plus isolations means that I am spending a lot of time just walking around and inspecting all the daily developments! I will try to leave it alone a little then. Just giving plenty water at night. @Pete.8 - Indeed! One arm is already stronger than the other so I'm bound to look a little Quasimodo post lockdown after the watering-can daily rounds ! @Dovefromabove - thanks indeed for your advice, I will leave it alone and water it well at night and try not to worry about in the day. Luckily the weather seems to be getting a little cooler in the coming days so fingers crossed.
Off to a Webinar with the Kew team now, and one of the questions I put to to panel is about climate change in fact, and the effects they're seeing there at Kew. I would love to understand what impacts they're seeing first hand this year and what effect they think changing plant development rates will have on the wider ecosystem going forward. As much as we all love the sun it's quite a concern having August weather in May! Thanks all!
They are gorgeous. All looking lovely @ju1i3 - I hope that when my garden becomes more established it can become more self sufficient! I certainly feel guilty watering every day....:-)
Think of it as part of your lockdown exercise plan Sounds like you'll need to keep at it too
PS - they're really easy to grow from seed - I grow the white ones I sow seed in June and have massive plants in flower this time the following year.
These white foxgloves look absolutely amazing @Pete.8 Do you by any chance know the variety? Also did you sow them directly in the ground and they did the rest themselves or did you have them in pots before planting out?
I have some similar purple ones and I love them. They grew from seeds produced by the first plant that appeared in my garden, no pots, just fell on the ground. But only three plants from what seemed to be hundreds of tiny seeds.
The trick to making the best of self seeding foxgloves is to thin out and transplant the seedlings when they’re quite small ... move them about so that they all have room to grow. Otherwise they self sow so thickly that they’re overcrowded and most die off. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Think of it as part of your lockdown exercise plan Sounds like you'll need to keep at it too
PS - they're really easy to grow from seed - I grow the white ones I sow seed in June and have massive plants in flower this time the following year.
These white foxgloves look absolutely amazing @Pete.8 Do you by any chance know the variety? Also did you sow them directly in the ground and they did the rest themselves or did you have them in pots before planting out?
I have some similar purple ones and I love them. They grew from seeds produced by the first plant that appeared in my garden, no pots, just fell on the ground. But only three plants from what seemed to be hundreds of tiny seeds.
Hi BBS I got the seed from Chiltern Seeds and the variety is Digitalis purpurea var. alba. I sow them in June in trays of gritty compost topped with grit, water and leave outside. I pot them up as and when, and eventually into 2L pots. I plant out in the autumn. Each plant puts up several spikes as you can see in the pic. You don't need many. They do self seed but the new plants are a variety of colours.
Billericay - Essex
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Thank you @Pete.8 - that instruction is perfect. I shall see if I can get ready grown plants in garden centre, but if not I will try seeds - looks like now it’s perfect timing 😊👍
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@Pete.8 - Indeed! One arm is already stronger than the other so I'm bound to look a little Quasimodo post lockdown after the watering-can daily rounds !
@Dovefromabove - thanks indeed for your advice, I will leave it alone and water it well at night and try not to worry about in the day. Luckily the weather seems to be getting a little cooler in the coming days so fingers crossed.
Off to a Webinar with the Kew team now, and one of the questions I put to to panel is about climate change in fact, and the effects they're seeing there at Kew. I would love to understand what impacts they're seeing first hand this year and what effect they think changing plant development rates will have on the wider ecosystem going forward. As much as we all love the sun it's quite a concern having August weather in May!
Thanks all!
Do you by any chance know the variety? Also did you sow them directly in the ground and they did the rest themselves or did you have them in pots before planting out?
I have some similar purple ones and I love them. They grew from seeds produced by the first plant that appeared in my garden, no pots, just fell on the ground. But only three plants from what seemed to be hundreds of tiny seeds.
... move them about so that they all have room to grow. Otherwise they self sow so thickly that they’re overcrowded and most die off. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I got the seed from Chiltern Seeds and the variety is Digitalis purpurea var. alba.
I sow them in June in trays of gritty compost topped with grit, water and leave outside.
I pot them up as and when, and eventually into 2L pots. I plant out in the autumn. Each plant puts up several spikes as you can see in the pic. You don't need many.
They do self seed but the new plants are a variety of colours.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.