Multicoloured Foxglove?!

jennyjelly

Last Autumn I planted a little foxglove (from a garden centre which was supposed to be dusky pink.

It now has not one but three tall flower spikes on it, but I'm a bit bemused as two are cream and one is pink.

Has anyone heard of this before?

Farway

I think you may have three plants, foxgloves have one flower spike only.

Perhaps your variety is different, and I stand to be corrected

jennyjelly

Farway wrote: »

I think you may have three plants, foxgloves have one flower spike only.

Perhaps your variety is different, and I stand to be corrected

I wondered that, but I bought it as one plant and garden centres don't usually give anything away do they! I've had a good look at the base of the plant and as far as I can see it all comes from one root. I supposed they could have been careless pricking out the seedlings and accidentally planted three as one, I don't supposed it would be easy to tell now they have sort of melded together.

Very strange!

pookiewn

Had a quick google, this was rather interesting

"Foxglove reseeds easily and a single purple plant is capable of producing multi-colored offspring. Most Foxgloves bloom biennially, growing foliage the first year and blooming and dying the second, although some perennial forms are available."

From here: http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!/items/1221918-growing-foxglove

Perhaps that is what has happened?!

jennyjelly

pookie, would you mind posting that link again please? I'd love to read it but it just goes to a 'Sorry, the page you were looking for cannot be found' message.

Thanks.