Does this sound familiar to you? Because this has been my experience with growing, failing and succeeding with growing digitalis.🌸
Every spring, I’d shop the nurseries with great optimism about new potential for my flower garden. And then I’d spot them. Those stunning tall spiked flowers that I dreamed about for years.🌸
I’d buy them, plant them in the right location with the appropriate amount of sunlight. They’d do okay and then peter out never to return again in my garden. It was so disheartening. I realize they are biennial but they just did not take like I’d heard about them doing in other gardener’s landscapes.🌸
So I avoided growing them. Until a few years later, I’d see another plant, buy them, plant them and go through the same cycle again. This happened a few times and to no avail, I could not get foxgloves to grow in my garden.🌸
Until I moved here!🌸
Although I moved only 20 minutes away in the same hardiness zone, I decided to give them a whirl again. I shopped at a local nursery, found these gorgeous blooms and you know what? They didn’t take either! What the heck!🌸
Determined to grow them, I decided to start them from seed indoors under grow lights the following winter. And you know what? Those seeds germinated and became strong seedlings that I planted in my flower garden.🌸
And would you believe? They bloomed in their first season! I was thrilled. Instead of deadheading them, I allowed the plant to drop seed and the crowns remained over the course of the winter. Well they grew again this spring, thrived AND ARE BLOOMING like crazy! Yay!!! I did it! And you can too with some resilience, perseverance and the will to grow them!🌸 Save and share this with a friend who loves cottage gardens. Will you try growing foxgloves from seed this year? Tell me in the comments below! 🌸
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