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Seeds from tall Foxgloves
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Anyone know if seeds collected from taller foxgloves have a better chance of growing into taller foxgloves themselves?
Some of my foxgloves are almost 6ft tall, others are only 3ft. Should I concentrate on collecting seeds from just the taller plants?
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Some of the growth potential is in the DNA, some is due to the conditions in which the plants are grown - that being said, I would always collect the seeds from the best performing plants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree with Dove but do remember that foxgloves will not always come true to the type of seed you collect.
Assuming they're all from D. purpurea or varieties of. You'll probably have a higher proportion of purples to whites but you won't get any other colours creeping in. They all just seed back closer and closer to the real foxglove over the years.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thats suits me nutcutlet, thanks. I only want purple or white.
I like the whites with the fairy footprints inside
Low on foxgloves here this year though. I let them do as they like and they obviously didn't like last year.
D. lutea are doing their usual excellent job,
D. ferruginea is not bad,
D laevigata; don't know what went wrong there. They're D. grandiflora and very short, maybe in the pot too long, They were flowering before I planted them out. (yesterday
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Was it you Nut that gave me the Laevigata, they germinated well and are now potted on ready for next Spring planting.
The ferruginea are good, was it Victoria or Star gaze Lily, can't remember who sent me those, but the were very good seeds, all up and growing well.
i am really hoping they all come 'true'.
my white ones came true from seeds.
Hi Lyn
All the digitalis may have been mine.
If the laevigata flower with rather flabby looking yellow flowers instead of lively orangey brown, sorry, that's grandiflora.
I can tell them apart in leaf if you need to know. I knew mine were grandiflora but when I planted them I was left with a label saying laevigata
You can't beat a really well organised nursery system
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mine's as well organised as yours Nut, but you can get some lovely surprises that way.
True,
In the sticks near Peterborough