Foxgloves:

Tomstrees · June 9, 2007

Came home the other night and Suz picked up these:

Poison I know .. but pretty ~

Tom

Tomstrees · June 9, 2007

ooops - dont know how that mater bloom got in there ! lol ~

Tom

Tania · June 9, 2007

these are my favorites - and DEER-PROOF

Suze · June 10, 2007

Tom, great pictures! I love foxglove, but they really don't like extreme heat. Sometimes I grow them as spring annuals here.

Tomstrees · June 11, 2007

I didn't know they are deer proof !

They are 1 of Suz fav. flowers ... her other is "Bleeding Heart" ... but the smaller fern-like foliage one ~

Tom

Zana · June 11, 2007

Tom,
I have lots of seed for yellow foxgloves if you want another colour.
Zana

Tomstrees · June 12, 2007

Zana,

I would LOVE a yellow !!!
PM me when you get a chance please ~

Tom

Zana · June 12, 2007

Tom,
Check your pm's
Zana

Tomstrees · June 14, 2007

Zana,

You've got mail ~

Tom

Zana · June 14, 2007

Tom,
You've got mail now....lol!
Zana

Tomstrees · June 9, 2008

Here are our foxgloves this season !!! they are monsters !
Also, I thought they would flower every other year ???

~ Tom

jenn_sc · June 9, 2008

How pretty, Tom! Do they re-seed themselves?

Tomstrees · June 9, 2008

Thats exactly what I thought: but the plants never died over the winter!

~ Tom

Zana · June 9, 2008

Some Foxgloves (digitalis) are or seem to be perennial. I am in zone 5 with some planted in an exposed north facing garden bed. The same clump keeps growing and growing larger annually, without completely dying off over the winter. Yes they will self-sow, if you let them. And that will add to the expansion.

remy · June 10, 2008

The pic is gone

. I grow all kind of supposedly difficult to grow plants, but I can't grow the supposedly easy ones like foxglove. I think they are so pretty too.
Remy

June 9, 2007	#1
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Foxgloves: Came home the other night and Suz picked up these: Poison I know .. but pretty ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale Last edited by Tomstrees; June 9, 2008 at 09:28 AM. Reason: moved pic file

June 9, 2007	#2
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	ooops - dont know how that mater bloom got in there ! lol ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

June 9, 2007	#3
Tania Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Anmore, BC, Canada Posts: 3,970	these are my favorites - and DEER-PROOF __________________ Tatiana's TOMATObase

June 11, 2007	#5
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	I didn't know they are deer proof ! They are 1 of Suz fav. flowers ... her other is "Bleeding Heart" ... but the smaller fern-like foliage one ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

June 12, 2007	#7
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Zana, I would LOVE a yellow !!! PM me when you get a chance please ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

June 10, 2007	#4
Suze Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 3,027	Tom, great pictures! I love foxglove, but they really don't like extreme heat. Sometimes I grow them as spring annuals here.

June 11, 2007	#6
Zana Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,521	Tom, I have lots of seed for yellow foxgloves if you want another colour. Zana

June 14, 2007	#9
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Zana, You've got mail ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

June 9, 2008	#11
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Here are our foxgloves this season !!! they are monsters ! Also, I thought they would flower every other year ??? ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale Last edited by Tomstrees; June 11, 2008 at 09:07 AM. Reason: pic

June 9, 2008	#12
jenn_sc SPLATT™ Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Florence, SC Posts: 502	How pretty, Tom! Do they re-seed themselves?

June 10, 2008	#15
remy Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Z6 WNY Posts: 2,354	The pic is gone. I grow all kind of supposedly difficult to grow plants, but I can't grow the supposedly easy ones like foxglove. I think they are so pretty too. Remy __________________ "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop