La Puce wrote:
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.

I was interested to see what happened, so collected the vast majority
of the seed in a jam-jar. I wanted to make sure I spread it somewhere
favourable, but, of course, didn't, so I've done the plant a disservice.


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.

I wondered whether to do that, or keep them 'till later, and sow
them then, hopling the old seed ramained somewhat viable.


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.

I would have, but... see my first paragraph.

gloom