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Post by NellyDee on Sept 21, 2016 9:29:58 GMT
I can be a bit slow at time but have just realised that I have not seen a single Foxglove in bloom here. They grow at bit like weeds around here even taking up root in the stone walls. There are the usual abundance of their the leaves but none even remotely looking like producing flowers. Have seen a few in Glen Lonan. Season mix up? What has gone mad here this year is ferns, maybe just too wet all year.
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Post by Cotham Marble on Oct 23, 2016 10:01:34 GMT
I don't know if this is conected but all my garden FGs were lost to crown rot this year.
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 23, 2016 11:47:11 GMT
I did not see any signs of rot, just a mass of leafage, I thought initially that we would have more foxgloves than we have ever seen before, but they just stayed as leaf with no sign of flower buds appearing and now they have all died back. I do think some plants have got thrown by the weather, for instance some of the lupins, despite the majority having died back, have started flowering again, also the redshank.
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Post by Cotham Marble on Oct 24, 2016 15:42:00 GMT
Yes bienniels, even sometimes as a short lived perenniel with a second year of flowering. Crown rot tends to hit in the winter/spring before the flower spikes have started to show, and often does look like the rosettes shrivelling away as the fungus interupts the connection with the roots.
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 24, 2016 15:51:45 GMT
Guess I will have an amazing display next year then. Did not realise they were biennial, thanks CM. Yes they sure like taking root everywhere here even out cracks in the stone walls.
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Post by Cotham Marble on Oct 26, 2016 9:58:16 GMT
Guess I will have an amazing display next year then. Did not realise they were biennial, thanks CM. Yes they sure like taking root everywhere here even out cracks in the stone walls. Oh dear, well we got there in the end. I'd misread your first post hence my wittering on about crown rot. Yes FGs are one of those plants that makes a low rosette and a fleshy tap root in the first year and then uses all the stored energy to bung up a large flower spike in the second year, this can lead to a lack of flowers every other year. In the garden the trick is to take some seed as early in the summer as possible and get a few plants growing through late summer and into the Autumn (might benefit from a bit of shelter where you are), if there's enough root growth these can be fooled into flowering the following summer so you get year on year flowers there after.
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