Re: Foxglove seeding


I have had much success with foxgloves reseeding, which is surprising because 
I tend to mess with my soil quite a bit and destroy alot of seeds, I'm sure.  
But the foxgloves are in places that I don't garden much (along the pickets 
in the shade, behind the gate) so they have reseeded.  I get about as many as 
I had before.  
**Funny thing--my 14 yr old gardening enthusiast was giving me a hard time 
this spring because I had a "pigweed" growing in my sunny border, that he 
said was crowding the lychnis.   I had been letting it grow just in case it 
was something interesting.  Finally, one day I  was suddenly moved to pull 
it, (it took a shovel actually) and this huge fuzzy weed landed in the 
compost pile.  
The next day my son comes up to me and says, "Hey mom, I think that weed is a 
foxglove, because yesterday I compared it to mine and they were the same".  I 
had forgotten how foxglove plants looked!  They were  behind the gate!  It 
would have been a beauty, it was just huge.  In fact, I think it had wintered 
over rather than being a seedling.  Ah, shucks.
Anyway, if you can stand the ugly seedheads, just wring their necks a little 
when they get good and brown,  and you'll have more next spring.  Just don't 
pull them!

Shelly

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