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Not hardening plants off in your part of the world: hellebore & foxglove

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  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    If there isn't any frost forecast then I wouldn't worry about anything thats very hardy like in the examples. 

    I have some foxgloves in my greenhouse because I grew to many and it's the easiest place to keep them that's not in the way. The ones I planted last year are much happier outside and twice the size but if I was going to plant any of these molly coddled greenhouse foxgloves, I'd still acclimate them a little to the outside temperatures by popping them next to the house walls. Do they need it? probably not but it's also not hard to do and why risk it. 

    I don't know what the local supermarket is like for looking after plants but ours are all terrible so I don't think a little extra tlc offered to the plants is a bad thing. Here they get watered before the reach the shop and you have to buy them before they dry up. We get houseplants dumped outside the shop even when there is snow on the ground.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    shrug
    Fire said:

    Fairygirl said:
    Plants like that would never be undercover to start with, so I'm afraid it's pretty meaningless.

    Waitrose do an annual sale of three foxglove or delphinium plants for £10. These are in the stores for weeks (not sold as an online offer) and not outside.



    Ours are wheeled from the warehouse yard to outside the front door each morning, and back to the yard at night.
     Never inside.
    Devon.
  • DaveGreigDaveGreig Posts: 189
    It really all depends on how much soft growth the plant has made due to low light levels and heat indoors. I would expect hardy plants like hellebores and foxgloves to lose the soft growth soon after being put out at this time of year. They’d suffer but probably survive and make a comeback although because the foxglove is a biennial I wouldn’t expect it to flourish quite like one that had been cared for properly. ie kept outside.


  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I visit  the odd Waitrose from time to time. I have never seen plants inside. Cut flowers or bulbs but not plants.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    There would be an inital shock, but I expect the plant would be pretty fine pretty quickly
    Hostafan1 said:
    Ours are wheeled from the warehouse yard to outside the front door each morning, and back to the yard at night.
     Never inside.
    They spend the night in the lobby at our nearest one
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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