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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 07:57 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Some may call it a weed but I love digitalis and the name "foxglove" always makes me think of a fox putting it's slender paw into the elaborately patterned mit

These common purple are the first to open but pure white ones and white with purple spots are not far from opening around the garden.

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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:30 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I find these charming too Pauline. They fit in anywhere.

I love your photos.

Kniphofia - Maine, Zone "4"
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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:36 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

A weed is but an unloved flower..

This one is coveted here:)

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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:42 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I love them too, Polly. Mine are just about ready to burst into bloom!

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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 09:57 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I love them too. This year they are growing in the front garden, as usual, but the shade garden and down in the rhubarb patch. Beautiful!

Diane British Columbia Zone 7b
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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:05 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Very pretty Polly.

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Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:13 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I wish these weeds could grow like dandelions in my garden Polly

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 12:58 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I just bought more of this weed to add to my garden!
Very pretty, Polly~!

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 09:07 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I wish I had more semi-shade areas for your beautiful foxglove...it is a real favorite here!

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 11:48 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

They are wonderful - I saw them growing in abundance in the Lake District recently even on the side of the motorway.

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 04:03 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

It's good to know I am not alone in giving garden space to foxgloves.
Here's some wet one's photographed today showing a range of flowers from deep purple through pink and white.

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 04:11 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

My husband bought some foxglove and wants them to do so well. He loves native plants. Any tips on keeping them? I read they are biennial and the one I had disappeared several years ago.

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 04:24 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Hi Eileen. Foxgloves are usually biennial but seed freely in a light moist woodland soil and don't need a lot of sun to do well. The seedlings are easy to identify as they are downy miniature versions of the parent plant and there will be thousands of them. If you don't want them growing where they germinate they are very easy to weed out and you can transplant larger seedlings but they aren't always easy to transplant. I have had more success moving plants in autumn or spring taking a big clump of soil larger than the root ball. In the first year they grow and in the second year they grow even more and flower from early to late summer. Cut back the main flower spike to continue flowering. Good luck!

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Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 06:39 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Thank you for info I don't find the the books here. I printed it out for my hubby.

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Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 03:47 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

I also find that if you want to move them do it when they are very small. They'll sit there a whole year getting bigger but the second year when they flower they are so worth it.
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Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 04:07 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

Thanks again. I copied the "very small" note for my hubby, too. I notice you two are both from The British Isles. We are zone 5 in the Laurel Highlands (chuckle) of southwestern Pennsylvania. Will that different climate be a big problem?

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Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 05:27 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

It shouldn't. As long as you can provide a little shade, I find they are very tough plants.

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Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 06:57 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Print Post

They really are the most fascinating plants. I'd love to have them established in my garden.

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