Re: Foxgloves
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- Subject: Re: Foxgloves
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 04:56:34 -0400
Louise,
The shorter ones with more flower spikes probably are the ones from
last year. Actually, I haven't paid a lot of attention as I have
scads of them all over the place and remembering who was where the
year before is more than my brain can deal with.
Since your foxgloves have a hedge behind them, am pretty sure that's
why they're facing the path. Hedge would cut light and path would
reflect it...unless it's a grass path:-) I have noticed that plants
in front of my yew hedge always face away from it.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Louise <louise@the-english-family.freeserve.co.uk>
> Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 2:38 AM
>
> I'm resending these four messages about foxgloves that I
> posted 24 hours ago. I didn't receive the digest yesterday
> evening, not sure what went wrong and so it doesn't look as
> though these messages have gone out. My apologies if you
> did already receive them.
>
> Thanks for this Marge. I'll look when mine have finished
> flowering to see what the leaves are like at the base.
> Another question though. Are the ones that flower for a
> second year as tall as those that are flowering for the
> first time? Occasionally I come across a foxglove with
> several spikes of flower but they are always short (never
> taller than three feet, often less) and I've wondered if
> these were ones that I accidentally left in from the
> previous year.
>
>
> Yes, that could be right. I have hedges on either side of
> my garden with a path going roughly down the middle of the
> garden. The two foxglove borders are between the hedges and
> the path - so the plants could be turned towards the lighter
> part near the path and away from the darker hedge.
>
> Louise, Surrey, England
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