Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS SPRING!!! Memorial Day Edition, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Gonna add my 2 cents worth here.....right or wrong---from my experiences....

Like Sally stated above--I also used to think that R.C. came back from seed
b/c there were so many new plants coming up around the old root clump.
I believe that is just b/c so many seeds drop straight down into the root mass
of the old plant. Then--in the spring--they all come up. I am pretty sure
that the old plan's roots are all dry and dead by next year.

I don't dig up mine in the fall--no big reason--just that they are, usually, buried among
or behind other plants.
Rose Campion's dropped seeds do not come up in late fall. They come up in spring.
So do Foxgloves. I swear, sometines though, I see Foxgloves coming up in fall
and living through the winter to "pop" in early spring.

I have one of David's perennial, yellow Foxgloves, but they struggle a bit in the bed
they are in as it is kind of wet from rain run-off from my shed roof.
I have seeds from this one too.

Jeff--Your seeded RC's this year will not die--because they will not even come up
until next spring. That is why I have a slew of them in my bed--and I was digging
them up and potting them up--just because.....
If you already had a RC growing and blooming this spring--those will die.

Scatter your seeds where you want them--backs of beds is a good idea.

Terri---
I don't know why your fox=glove seeds would not come up???? Too much shade?
Mine are all over the place in the spring. Try a sunnier spot in some nice. loose soil.

Here's a picture I just posted...This was all from ONE plant. It was behind my big fern-
and behind my Hydrangea. I did not gather the dust-like seeds--so they all fell down.

Gotta go and mow my lawn before the rains come--can't sit here forever....
Gita

Foxglove seedlings---potted some--will pull the rest.....