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Foxgloves - Illumination Pink
Yviestevie
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Hi Folks, I have planted two of the 'new breed' of foxgloves. Said to be perennial and sterile so produce more flowers for longer. I wondered if anyone else had planted them and whether they had had any success in planting them in shade. I have grown 'normal' foxgloves in shade for years but wondered if these had the same requirements.
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Foxgloves are wood land plants Yviestevie, they always thrive in shade, the selective breeding won't make any difference to the the natural characteristics of the plant. They'll love it.
Hi Dave have sown foxglove Silver Cub they have taken weeks to show and are still only the size of a pinhead . Was going to put at back of a new bed but if they like shade do you think they will suffer a shady north facing wall ?
I note T&M now list this as half hardy
It's a hybrid with isoplexis which is not hardy, not a cultivar of purpurea
In the sticks near Peterborough
My 'perennial' foxglove never came back after the 1st year. I dont trust what any of these magazines say.
My original three illumination pink (I think it's coming up to their third spring) have kept going in spite of sitting in wet clay for the first year. I have divided them each year and currently have about ten, I can't go out and check as it's dark and raining. Three have survived a very wet winter in the ground and six have been in pots outside all winter and they all looked healthy when I checked them a week ago.
However, with annual/biennial foxgloves mine grow straight and look impressive, whereas the perennial ones need staking early on and really don't compare visually. Unless I remember to regularly tie them to a support, they fall over and give no display of the flowers. In the past, I have not given them enough attention but intend to this year and if I'm not impressed with the floral display then they are going to go.
Primrose cottage, they cope with any shade, damp conditions etc, if you walk in a wood in late spring and take note of the light and damp conditions present you'll see they are ideally suited. Even a dark corner in the garden will do. Nature at it's best.
The Isoplexis hybrids tend to need more sun, than our traditional foxgloves, as the originate from the Canary Islands.
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