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Could these be perennial foxglove seedlings?

NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
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If these are weeds they are new ones to me, so could they be from the nearby perennial foxgloves? Do they even self-seed or are they sterile? It’s an orangey one but can’t remember the name, fire something maybe. Sorry about the soil splatter, we actually got some rain last night!


Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Ah, scotch that, I looked it up and it’s Goldcrest, which GW says is sterile, shucks. Any ideas what they might be? Probably a weed!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If it was Firebird it won’t seed.   Weeds are coming thick and fast now 😀
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  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    edited March 2023
    Your last photo, the plant on the left I think is a pansy, not sure about the foxglove one though. I've not weeded the bed yet, I've been waiting to see what pops up first.

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    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Thanks, perhaps I’ll pot them up and see what they are, certainly not a familiar weed, but most of us have grown on weeds from time to time! At least the foxgloves survived. Looking a bit weather battered and in need of a trim but good growth from the base.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    They don't look like foxgloves. Bottom right could, maybe, be a forget-me-not. Bottom left might be a pansy or viola. Could also be weeds.
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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Thing is, I don’t grow pansies, violas or forget-me-nots, so the evidence is increasingly mounting in favour of a weed!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    I thought the same as you Busy, forget me nots,( for 2nd pic)  definitely not foxgloves. We have some popping up and they're not like that.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Many of the perennial Foxgloves, don't look anything like the common biennial one.
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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    We’ve established that the perennial foxgloves I have are sterile and I don’t grow the others, nor any of the other plants suggested, so my bet is still a weed 🌱 These ones have long, straight, narrow leaves which I think are different, as punkdoc says..
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428

    foxglove (turned out to be white). 

    Luxembourg
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