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CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
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I wanted to grow some different varieties of foxgloves for next year as I want some shorter ones instead of the beasts I usually end up with! So I bought a few different packs of seeds. I also bought some apricot foxglove seeds (I'm expecting these to be tall ones admittedly). So here are a few seedlings - the ones on the right look nothing like foxgloves but apparently are a sunset yellow type and I'm going to trust that they are. But look at the back two, middle and left - they are claiming to be apricots, as is the one front middle. The front one I can believe, but the other two?? Do you think they're just something else altogether?

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The left and middle back row look like willowherbs to me :(
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  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    Well I'm starting to think weed! That I'm so tenderly nurturing 🙄
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    JennyJ said:
    The left and middle back row look like willowherbs to me :(
    I agree. They look like Willowherb to me to. 

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  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    Guess I'll be pulling those ones out then!
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Front left and front middle definitely  look like foxgloves 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Crazybeelady Agree with the above not sure you will be able to ID two far right until they grow more. 
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  • CebeCebe Posts: 61
    The two on the right look similar to the perennial rusty foxgloves that I grew from seed last year & they also look like the leaves of my perennial yellow ones, so don’t give up on them yet.
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    I'm happy to leave the two right ones  they're probably OK, it's just those pesky back two, middle and left, that I think are dodgy!
  • greatnorthernexoticgreatnorthernexotic Posts: 119
    Agree with others who say top middle looks like willow herb (epilobium tetragonum) - does it have a square stalk?


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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2022
    You'll never know unless you grow them on.  How many good ones do you have?

    Foxgloves are very small seeds and difficult to handle.  Did the interlopers all come from the Apricot packet?  Did you sew them quite dense and then prick out the biggest into single pots?  Weeds are, almost by definition,  fast germinating and quick away.

    I have grown apricot foxhloves in the past.  They were just like pupureum; the bottom 2our left.
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