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Digitalis
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Have i left it to late so sow Digitalis seed any ideas
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You'd be unlikely to get flowers this year but they biennials or perennials (depending on which ones you've got) and they'll flower eventually
In the sticks near Peterborough
I will be sowing in April for flowering in 2016, they will grow on then be planted out either Autumn if they are big enough or early Spring.
Most of mine were sown in September/October, I will plant them out in Spring, they will probably get small flowers this year and be lovely next year, you need to plan well ahead with perennials. Then keep up a good succession in case of losing any.
There is one called Silver Cub which has white flowers and is first year flowering if you start early enough - like January, so you need to move fast. Otherwise sow in May and plant out in autumn. After that they should look after themselves as long as there is some bare soil to seed into.
I like to have plenty of both purple and white foxgloves. But Im finding it increasingly difficult to buy purple foxglove plants. Garden centres seem to concentrate on selling hybrid colours instead. Im having to revert to seed this year.
Best from seed I reckon. Cheap and cheerful. For D. purpurea I like the proper purple ones and white ones with footprints.
Other species of digitalis are worth growing as well; Ds ferruginea and lutea do very well
The oversized and the deformed don't attract me at all
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have seeds left of the white with red spotty throat Nut, if you want some.
In fact I have all the colours and all the sizes!
I thought candy mountain did well last year. I always leave self setters, or move strays from the veg patch to the flower beds. Amazing what can turn up years after initially sowing them. Suttons apricot turns up now and then. The bees seem happy with any of them.
Yes please Lyn
In the sticks near Peterborough
No probs will do, xx
Lovely, thanks
You should have got a parcel Lyn, Philippa got hers yesterday
In the sticks near Peterborough