Re: Foxgloves
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Foxgloves
- From: B* C*
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:54:00 EDT
It probably depends on what colours might be there as a recessive gene. I
don't know my way around flower genetics too well (except for what little I
can remember about Gregor Mendel's experiments). Certainly if you want
better colours you'd be well advised to get a mixed batch of seed and rogue
out the colours you don't want. I rather like the Apricot strain, and the
pure whites, but then I have yet to see a D. purpurea colour I didn't like,
including the one you apparantly don't.
Bob Campbell
>From: "Gerry/Bob O'Neill" <eoneill@ibm.net>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Foxgloves
>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 08:04:54 -0400
>
> Are you all saying that if I have a single D. purpurea plant that is that
>ordinary shade of magenta (which my mother calls "Garden-of-Eden purple"),
>there is no chance of getting different colors next year? If so, I'll pull
>that sucker up..I also have a mertonensis that I will definitely allow to
>seed itself when it blooms.
>
>Gerry
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