Battered Foxgloves
Kriedstein
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My foxgloves, which I sowed this year, were looking lush and promising for blooming next summer. But the storms, high winds recently have totally withered the leaves. I am wondering whether they can recover well from the root, or whether I'd be better to get some 1st year flowering hybrid seed to sow in their place come spring!
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They'll be fine - they'll grow a new rosette of leaves at the base of the plant before they put up a flowering spike in 2017.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh good!
My foxgloves are the same Kriedstein. I also sowed them this year and they did look good (green and healthy) but now have brown leaves and some look dead. I tugged at one of them today thinking that perhaps the roots had also died, but it was firmly anchored in the soil - so I left it, hoping that the plant will grow more leaves in the spring/summer. Here's hoping.
Tough as old boots - even the fancier ones. I've had seedlings in tiny pots for...ehh...a long time..
They look dead every autumn/winter, then spring into life again, defying the odds and the total neglect.
I really should try and get them planted this year...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...