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Chinese foxgloves

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  • GardenmaidenGardenmaiden Posts: 1,126

    I saw this last Friday in a garden centre in Uxbridge for £8.99 so I went on Ebay and bought a packet of 100 seeds for 99p. It did look a very nice plant, taller than me too.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    That's the answer I think, I will look for seeds. Thanks GM

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I went to a GC this morning and might have seen this plant. Not pure Rehmannia elata but a hybrid between that and R. glutinosa

    http://www.walberton-nursery.co.uk/rehmannia-walbertons-magic-dragon-launched-at-hta-national-plant-show/

    Sterileimage

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ZenjeffZenjeff Posts: 652
    Looks a lovely flower half hardy I believe probably too cold to be left outside in North east
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    On the link it says it's hardyimage

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ZenjeffZenjeff Posts: 652
    Different plant sites Hardys say will struggle in bad winters and best over wintered in greenhouse noting my luck I'll get one plant it out and we will get a cold winter I will wait and see if someone else in the Northeast over winters outside ok
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    If you grow them from seeds Zenjeff, they will become used to your climate and stand a better chance, I have bought the seeds from 'Just Seed' on eBay. If they germinated anything like ordinary foxgloves you may get 100 plants, some will survive.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    That's Rehmannia elata though Lyn, no seed with this hybrid. 

    The words 'Illumination Pink' come to mindimage

    I've lost Rehmannia elata in the past, no PM was carried out so no definite cause of death.

    I wouldn't trust them



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    No Nut, no baby chicks from my hybrid hens either!

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Really. I thought hens were hens. 

    and hens laid eggs

    and if cock present made chicks

    Such ignoranceimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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