Hi break23 - thanks for the reply. I think I will just persist with the emails - just for the hell of it and make a promise to myself never to spend another penny on anything from T&M.
@verdun.. no it is not seedlings.. it is the smae plant.. as the old leaves are still attached.. when it reshoots i cut them off.. this is it..if i do link right.
There are some perennial and hardy Foxgloves, this is one and I had one called Carillon years ago. They're Digitalis grandiflora cultivars not the biennial D. purpurea.
D. grandiflora has proved pretty perennial for me Verdun. D.laevigata as well is in it's 3rd year. D. lutea and ferruginea vary but seed around so well I can't keep a check on longevity, I suspect 2 years at the most, after which if they're not dead they look as though they should be and I remove them.
I agree about the salesman's patter. I was quite happy to let others do the Illumination Pink experiment. It wasn't hard. I like the standard foxgloves much more.
I've given up ordering plants from T & M . I spent over £100 the other year because of big gaps in the garden caused by -- 15 C frost. Hardy gerberas-going to fllower all summer, produced one flower each and then disappeared. Blue verbascums got refunded because the plants were tiny plugs that died before the week was out. The tree peony never sprouted. Blue poppies died without flowering.Begonia bulbs, 2 sprouted out of 5 , and were replaced,. The replacements didn't do much better. I then succumbed this year to 36 perennial plants for £4.99. as part of a special with my seed order.They arrived through the letterbox. The plugs were as big as my little finger nail. I potted them into a plug tray and now into 3 inch pots. Theres no chance they'll flower this year.. When I complained about the previous lot I was told that "all our plants are capable of flowering the first year" I'll stick to seeds and cuttings in future.I'm not a novice. I've been growing plants for over 40 years.
I just get upset when what are described as "plants" turn out to be the size of what I call seedlings. If I want seedlings I'll plant seeds. Also what is described as "hardy" should have the overrider "only in Trebah gardens or the isles of scilly"
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No reply from T&M as yet - their Customer Care department sucks...........
Hi break23 - thanks for the reply. I think I will just persist with the emails - just for the hell of it and make a promise to myself never to spend another penny on anything from T&M.
Yep - it's very frustrating
@verdun.. no it is not seedlings.. it is the smae plant.. as the old leaves are still attached.. when it reshoots i cut them off.. this is it..if i do link right.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIGITALIS-FOXGLOVE-CREME-BELL-HARDY-FLOWERING-PERENNIAL-GARDEN-PLANT-POT-/380454952439?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D181134903722%26ps%3D54
There are some perennial and hardy Foxgloves, this is one and I had one called Carillon years ago. They're Digitalis grandiflora cultivars not the biennial D. purpurea.
In the sticks near Peterborough
D. grandiflora has proved pretty perennial for me Verdun. D.laevigata as well is in it's 3rd year. D. lutea and ferruginea vary but seed around so well I can't keep a check on longevity, I suspect 2 years at the most, after which if they're not dead they look as though they should be and I remove them.
I agree about the salesman's patter. I was quite happy to let others do the Illumination Pink experiment. It wasn't hard. I like the standard foxgloves much more.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've given up ordering plants from T & M . I spent over £100 the other year because of big gaps in the garden caused by -- 15 C frost. Hardy gerberas-going to fllower all summer, produced one flower each and then disappeared. Blue verbascums got refunded because the plants were tiny plugs that died before the week was out. The tree peony never sprouted. Blue poppies died without flowering.Begonia bulbs, 2 sprouted out of 5 , and were replaced,. The replacements didn't do much better. I then succumbed this year to 36 perennial plants for £4.99. as part of a special with my seed order.They arrived through the letterbox. The plugs were as big as my little finger nail. I potted them into a plug tray and now into 3 inch pots. Theres no chance they'll flower this year.. When I complained about the previous lot I was told that "all our plants are capable of flowering the first year" I'll stick to seeds and cuttings in future.I'm not a novice. I've been growing plants for over 40 years.
I just get upset when what are described as "plants" turn out to be the size of what I call seedlings. If I want seedlings I'll plant seeds. Also what is described as "hardy" should have the overrider "only in Trebah gardens or the isles of scilly"