Sounds like a sequence of events that could happen. When foxgloves are done blooming I sometimes cut down the old stems and shake the seed from the old flowers about the place as well just to help get some more new plants started but since I just grow the wild ones they keep going on their own anyway. Also find it good to clear off some of the competition from the young plants but as they get bigger they fend for themselves fairly well.
@Lyn - I could have sent you loads of the W. Guinness aquilegia if I'd known you needed them. I've been deadheading like mad because they produce so much viable seed - I'd have nothing else in the garden if I let them all grow!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl I didn’t know that I needed them either, I’m such a tight arse that when I place an order I make sure I get my moneys worth for the 99p postage.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have a perennial foxglove that doesn't look like a foxglove to me. This year it hasn't even flower!
Is it a straw foxglove (Digitalis lutea)? I have these, they're smaller than the showy foxgloves and pale yellow. Mine haven't flowered yet this year, but we're having a cold, wet spring-into-summer here in the northeast US.
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They will be in a corner by theirselves, so should be happy.
I've been deadheading like mad because they produce so much viable seed - I'd have nothing else in the garden if I let them all grow!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
(married to a Yorkshireman...)
Is it a straw foxglove (Digitalis lutea)? I have these, they're smaller than the showy foxgloves and pale yellow. Mine haven't flowered yet this year, but we're having a cold, wet spring-into-summer here in the northeast US.