Foxglove digitalis, how much do your hummingbirds like them?
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Comments (24)redrumed, thanks about the photos. It was probably just luck. For every success I have 4 or more failures for sure. Now I could have taken their choice, but I ordered from T&M on their sale and got that brown foxglove free. What on earth am I going to do with that if it grows? I also ordered a 2 different packets of the yellow ones, hope one is the true perennial and that it grows. I've got one more plant just starting to put up bloom stalks, more toward the shade, same side, beds line the front sidewalk to the house, and found another plant on the other side I forgot I put there. Maybe it will yet bloom as it's not in deep shade like the two I dug out. I had some siberian wallflowers that went crazy which is probably part of the problem with blooming. Most had gone to seed by a few days ago so I cut them way down, so that might help the plants they were shading/crowding plus they may rebloom in the fall. Actually if you don't have much going and like orange, I highly recommend those sib wallflowers. They bloom for a long period and make a real color splash before other perennials including roses and iris are ready to bloom. Also I found the perennial form of Baby's Breath, gyposophilia, they are thicker and taller this year but haven't bloomed yet. I think I got those at Seeds Trust but could be mistaken. I'm waiting for my son to come get the two foxglove plants, and they don't seem to mind at all having been dug up several days ago and potted but it might be too late for them to bloom. Raining AGAIN and the siren is going off. These constant rains are totally crazy we're having here in Iowa....See MoreHow to help digitalis get through the winter?
Comments (9)Hi, I should have mentioned, they were seedlings I started last year, so they were set to bloom this season if they had made it and I didn't mulch them at all last year. I don't know if it could have just been our crazy weather last year. Kimba, I see you are from PA so you wouldn't know that last year was a very unusual fall here. We didn't have our first killing frost until after January 1st. Very very late for us. I had green leaves on lupine and digitalis the first week in January and then a cold snap that killed the foliage shortly after that. I imagine you had the same jackie?...See MoreHow does Digitalis do in Southern California?
Comments (10)Hi! I'm in northern California (outside San Francisco, zone 10a) and have had foxgloves for several years. My original plants, I dug up from my grandpa's garden in 2003 when he passed away, and I haven't been without them since. Generally, foxglove is regarded as a biennial (i.e. it sends up a rosette of foliage the first year, blooms the second year, then dies, but usually results in many self seeded volunteers), but some varieties like strawberry foxglove (d. mertonensis), chocolate foxglove (d. parviflora) and others, are true perennials. But since we have an atypical climate, some things which are perennials elsewhere are indeed annuals here (such as tulips, for instance!) But who's complaining, when the vast majority of our situation is the opposite: I have snapdragons which live for literally years, and brugmansias bloom and even thrive in December! Pansies never die, etc. SO, after all my rambling, I don't know if I really answered your question or not. But I CAN tell you that I've had blooming sized plants ever since those original ones of my grandpas, 4 years ago. I'm pretty sure they're self seeded volunteers from those first plants and on down the line, so it makes it seem like a perennial anyway. But at any rate, I think they're worth it! Very little care required, and the blooms are so spectacular! Amanda 'romando'...See MoreHow Do I Make My WS Foxglove Thrive?
Comments (4)Last year I had great success W-sowing Digitalis purpurea, which is the biennial species. Native to Europe, it grows in partially shaded woodlands, along bodies of water, etc. in its natural habitat. I have read it likes medium soil and part shade. Apparently the crowns can rot over the winter if the soil is too wet. I planted mine in the hummingbird garden, which is partial sun and the moistest soil in the yard. They loved it there because they grew into huge clumps. Some retained more green foliage than others over the winter. The biggest one turned brown and looked like it had died, so I thought it might have been too wet over the winter for that one, but it is putting out a bit of new growth, so we'll see....See Moresuspenders
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