Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves · 6 June 2023 at 12:34PM

The foxgloves are good this year. Self-seeded, therefore free!

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foxgloves · 6 June 2023 at 12:38PM

All the white & mauve sweet rocket around the back of this border also self-seeded. I just re-site the plants where I want them. The branches in the foreground are our old pear tree. Sorry the colours are a bit hazy. I took these pics on a sunny day & conditions were a bit too bright - unlike today!

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Four_Seasons · 6 June 2023 at 12:43PM

Oh they look beautiful. Would so like some foxgloves, lupins and stocks in my garden but have sadly accepted I am not able to do the actual work involved still I am enjoying my greenhouse. Hope you are having a good day, it looks as if you have the sunshine afraid its lost its way to Lincolnshire x

foxgloves · 6 June 2023 at 12:46PM

@Cheery_Daff - Thanks. I often intend to share garden & kitchen witchery photos, then usually forget to take any!
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foxgloves · 6 June 2023 at 12:51PM

I did have the sunshine then, @Four_Seasons, but not today. I watched the weather map first thing & saw a great sheet of cloud come in from your direction! So far, it has produced one very short spell of drizzle & about 2 mins of what I would actually call 'rain'. It's chilly too. I think I was very optimistic when I went down to open the greenhouse earlier.
Re foxgloves - you only need to scatter the seed from a ripe salvaged seeding flower head or alternatively from a bought packet of seeds. Almost all of mine are self-seeded this year. The only ones which aren't are an apricot variety which I grew from some seeds saved by my friend. If you just sprinkled some seed this summer, you should have seedlings/young plants in autumn & they will be ready to flower next year.
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