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Foxgloves

The_Lazy_GardenerThe_Lazy_Gardener Posts: 165
in Problem solving
I planted these Foxgloves as plug plants about two months ago, but some of them have started to flower already. Being biennial I thought they wouldnt flower until next year? 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Plants don't read the books, but some certainly have a mind of their own.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    A lot of plants held to be biennial are often nothing of the kind. These days I take it as a very loose term.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Bonus!
    I have a rhododendron in flower now. As @punkdoc says they don't read the books.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It won't be a problem, if that's what's worrying you @The_Lazy_Gardener. It happens now and again, but it's good that they've come on so well. 
    You'll get the others next year. 
    I have a native rowan producing some flowers just now. Same last year. The berries are almost all gone on it, courtesy of the blackbirds and starlings  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I forgot about my Rowan @Fairygirl. I noticed flowers and half eaten berries on the same tree.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I have a couple in flower now too. They aren't really mature plants yet and I'm sure they'll flower again next year. Same thing happened last year. Also this year there were a few that flowered again having already flowered last year.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • The_Lazy_GardenerThe_Lazy_Gardener Posts: 165
    edited August 2023

    Thanks for all your help.
    Just hope they flower again.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Not only will they flower next year,  if you leave the heads on and the seeds to dry out,  you’ll get seedlings which will flower the following year.  Very useful plants. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    My foxgloves flowered earlier this year and I sowed the resulting seeds, and one has already flowered, with another on the way.
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