We have some foxgloves which are not due to flower until next year. They have grown way to big for where we planted them and we were wondering if it would harm them to move them? If so when can we do this?
They are quite happy to be moved. I spread mine round the garden any time from late summer onwards. Water them in well to settle the soil and they'll be fine
In my experience even if you rip them up and just throw them away in the corner of the garden or field they'll spring up again. Even if you run over them with a tractor they'll come back. On a hardyness scale I'd say they're indestructable.
Some people mess about carefully collecting the seeds they produce and then potting them up carefully to transplant .... not me, I just fling the dead heads with seed around the wooded (light shade) area and confident that they'll be somewhere there sometime soon.
I like to grow from seeds and plant out as big plants, the slugs are rather partial to the tiny ones. Although, I do have them popping up everywhere, usually where I don't want them.
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They are quite happy to be moved. I spread mine round the garden any time from late summer onwards. Water them in well to settle the soil and they'll be fine
In the sticks near Peterborough
Many thanks
In my experience even if you rip them up and just throw them away in the corner of the garden or field they'll spring up again. Even if you run over them with a tractor they'll come back. On a hardyness scale I'd say they're indestructable.
Some people mess about carefully collecting the seeds they produce and then potting them up carefully to transplant .... not me, I just fling the dead heads with seed around the wooded (light shade) area and confident that they'll be somewhere there sometime soon.
I like to grow from seeds and plant out as big plants, the slugs are rather partial to the tiny ones. Although, I do have them popping up everywhere, usually where I don't want them.
isn't that just the way it goes?
Yes it's called s*ds law.
Had a poor foxglove year, good for stinging netteles though.
Must try harder
In the sticks near Peterborough
Some of my foxgloves are just coming out now, along with delphiniums.