On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:12:18 +0100, Spider wrote:


Anna Kettle wrote in message
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: I have a Foxglove that has appeared in my border - self seeded, we
: back on to fields. It seems to be a single plant with two main
: flowering spikes - however one spike has the usual deep purple flower
: whilst the other spike is covered in cream coloured flowers - is this
: a common phenomenum?

Foxgloves have just opened in my new (to me) garden and three quarters
of them are cream. I'd never noticed cream foxgloves before so I
suspect they have been selected. I wonder if they are the sort of
plant where you have to pull out the purple ones or they will revert.
Anyone know?

Anna
~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England
|""""| ~ Plaster conservation and lime plaster repair
/ ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc


Hello Anna,
Yes, they can revert if you are not selective, although I believe some
'alba' types are bred to be more stable.
When selecting young plants, look for purely green stems. The true purpurea
forms usually have a pinkish cast to their stems.
Spider

The last couple of years I had some of the purple foxgloves you see in the
wild appear in one of my beds and I left them to flower and seed. At the
beginning of this year I collected up about 15 to 20 plants, and
repositioned them in another bed beneath some trees. I expected to get 15
to 20 purple foxgloves, but so far have managed to get a pink one and a
pure white one, which was a little suprising. Can purple foxgloves produce
white/pink ones naturally? Or is it more likely that the white foxgloves
seeds have found their way into my garden?

Regards,

Paul.

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