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Old 10-02-2006, 11:55 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Old flower seed.


Chris Bacon wrote:
I have some seed, of foxglove, from a particularly interesting plant
that flowered last year. What's my best chance of getting it to grow?
I would see what comes of it.


Best sowing of digitalis should have been done straight after
collecting the seeds so that the plant is underway strong enough to
sustain the winter. You can sow them now, but they need a bit of warmth
to get them started and that's the difficult bit when sowing them in
spring. If you are successful they also flower the same year. But it's
harder to get them started. Next time, sow them in September or like
me, just I leave them do their thing - every year for the last 7 years,
they've moved of their own accord around my garden. It's always a
surpise! This week end I've discovered one self seeded itself on the
edge of a pot full of mint. There's going to be competition! )