Foxgloves?

[Bun]

I sowed some wild flowers seeds last year & have now changed my mind & am in the prosess of digging it all over. There are quite a few of what I thought were foxgloves, but before I dig them up & give them away I need to make sure that that is what they are.

I'm pretty sure they are, but the leaves are quite simular to primroses, only a bit bigger. The leaves are also quite spikey underneath. Do foxgloves have spikey leaves?

If they were big primroses would they have flowers last year?

[Bun]

[flowerlady]

Do you grow verbascums?  They are also quite similar!

Why do you want to hoick them?  Foxgloves do seem to stimulate other plants around them to do ther best!

If you do decide to hoick them give me a shout!  ;D

[beejay]

Having just fondled my foxglove seedlings I would say that they are slightly furry on top & underneath whilst primroses have no furriness. Is it possible that they are something like green alkanet which look very like foxgloves but do have a prickly feel to the leaves?

[Bun]

I need to hoick them because they are currently in the top bed which I'm going to convert into a winter flowering shrub bed. It will have a bark pathway through it so my young Will (Nearly 5) can walk/run/ride around it.

I have moved some already, but there are faw too many.

I googled  green alkanet  but mine are nothing like them. I don't mind if they are verbascums as I like them more than foxgloves. The trouble is, out of all of our circle of friends I'm supposed to be the one who knows about plants (compared to them, that is. ;) ) so if I say they are one thing & they turn out to be another my face will be a little red!  :-[

[Bun]

BTW Flowerlady, I see you live in Herts. Where abouts? If they do turn out to be foxgloves, or verbascums for that matter, you're more than welcome to pop over to Harlow & bag some.  :D

[Bun]

Bugger!

I've just been informed they're Teasels!

Oh, what do I know anyway!  ::)

[rosebud]

Bun when the PMs are up and running you must let me know where you are in Harlow i live in Old Harlow. ;D ;D

[grawrc]

OT Jenny need to talk  either in chat or on PM. Please get in touch.

[Bun]

I'm the bottom end of the Crooked Mile...

That near Waltham Abbey?

[Bun]

Do you have a lottie in Old Harlow too?

We've visited one down there, it might have been yours!  :D

[Jill]

Hi Bun.  I was brought up in Harlow (with a couple of years in Old Harlow and Stansted) and me old pa still lives there.  Small world indeed.  When PMs are back do let me as well as Rosebud know where you are .

[grawrc]

AFAIK foxgloves are biennials? Is that the case?

[Jill]

Hi  grawrc.  Yes, most are biennial although T&M are now selling some (seeds that is) that they say are perennial.