Foxgloves

lolly5648

I have two lovely white foxgloves in pots that I will eventually plant in the garden when they have finished flowering.

If I want more plants next year can I collect seeds from them and if so, how? Or is there some other way of doing it?

Waterlily24

Funnily enough I've just collected some foxglove seed. lol We only had a few a couple of years ago but they've self seeded and they are everywhere now.
I collected the round green pods, let them dry and the seed fall out themselves.
I've never tried sowing them myself before though.

foxgloves

Foxgloves are biennial, so it's worth a try planting them in your garden after they've flowered, but make sure you do collect seed, as biennials usually grow during their first year, flower during their second, then set seed, then usually die, although occasionally you can find that they manage a third year. When the spike of flowers has gone over to ripe seed, if it hasn't already scattered itself, just cut off the spike & sprinkle. Give them a water & you should find you get some new little plants germinate. Depending on the variety, you should get some pure white ones, but when you collect seed, you can get different colours too. All my foxgloves are self-sown and I get a mixture each year of cream, bright pink, pale pink & white. Good luck...they're so pretty, aren't they?

lolly5648

Thanks for your replies. I love both your user names!

Primrose

I generally find that mine have pretty well self seeded themselves already by the time the stems have dried as the pods burst and scatter the minute seed everywhere.
I love them and so do the bees. One word of warning though. If you throw the stalks onto the compost heap there will invariably be some seeds left and they seem to have the ability to survive in your compost heap. When I spread it out on the vegetable patch the following year I have foxglove seedlings popping up everywhere.
When I see how much they charge for a solitary foxglove plant in a pot in garden centres, if I had the time, money and compost to pot all my seedlings up I could be a millionaire by now!