They do have a tap root but I find it does not go deep until the flowering stalk emerges and so can be moved before that happens quite easily. I think that is where some people worry about moving Foxgloves.
Fidget, that is what I always thought, and yet I have seen them described as perennials - the only thing I think that can refer to is the fact that once you have grown them they will seed about and new plants will come up? But I had been meaning to ask whether that was what was meant, or whether the same plants could come up again.
The only ones that are perennial are the illumination series, but the frost gets them instead as they are a cross with isoplexis. To propagate illuminatiion pink, talk to verdun.
On the subject of Foxgloves,my little chaps are doing well but what I'm thinking is what plan of action I take when summer draws to a close. Do I leave them in pots and put in a cold frame (which I don't have) or plant them in the ground in their final positions.The biggest plants are now about 3" high and about 4" across. They are Excelsiors by the way,if that makes any difference.
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They do have a tap root but I find it does not go deep until the flowering stalk emerges and so can be moved before that happens quite easily. I think that is where some people worry about moving Foxgloves.
When is the best time to dig up foxgloves? I have some that I would like to move. They are in flower at the current time.