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Apricot digitalis
grimble2007
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Hello fellow gardeners, i have recently acquired 3 apricot foxgloves which I love. My question is...if I harvest he seeds and scatter them, will the flowers grow back true to colour?
thank you.
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Some might but not reliable
In the sticks near Peterborough
Fingers crossed then thankyou nut cutlet.
If they are the only foxgloves in your garden, or the vicinity, they may well come true.
If not, some cross pollination may happen. Worth trying anyway!
My original foxgloves (white) came true until I introduced some purple ones (50 -50 after that)
Unfortunately i have wild purple ones too.....oh well maybe I'll end up with purple with apricot spots....now that would be interesting! Thank you for your response Katherine w.
If you want to retain the strain it's best to only plant 1 type of Digitalis purpurea with only cross breeds of digitalis and even that depends on the bees not visiting other foxgloves close by. Otherwise you could let the foxgloves mingle and see what pops up.
I find that with foxglove seedlings, the all green ones produce pale flowers, and the ones with a reddish hue to the leaf petioles produce purple flowers. Young cosmos plants are similar, green stems lighter colour flowers, stems with a red flushing give darker pink or red flowers. If you have a lot of young plants, you can rogue them at that stage before waiting for flowers. I hope that helps.