Solved Primrose ?

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  1. Phil A

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    Not Borage :)
     
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    • Redwing

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      Good plant, yes........but don’t keep them if you have toddlers around who taste everything in sight!
       
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      • martin-f

        martin-f Plant Hardiness Zone 8b

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        Hi, i'm just sorting these foxgloves out would i be correct in saying they wont flower this year ?.
         
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        • Gail_68

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          @martin-f found this info mate about foxgloves if it helps :)

          Foxgloves like a slightly shady spot and can be left to naturalise in open woodland where they form unusual drifts of colour. As a rule, they are hardy plants and can cope with any soil unless it is very wet or very dry.They are fairly disease resistant, although the leaves may suffer slightly from powdery mildew if the summer is hot and humid.

          Foxgloves are biennial which means that plants establish and grow leaves in the first year, then flower and produce seeds in the second. A few foxgloves are perennial, but they aren't reliable and so are best treated as biennials too. The common foxglove freely self-seeds. This means that new seedlings spring up at random all over the garden producing different shifting, untutored patterns of flowers each year. This can look lovely if you have the room in your garden to let the plants roam.

          However, if you have a restricted space and you want to keep your foxgloves in one area, cut the flowers down when they are starting to go over and the petals have shrivelled.
           
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          • martin-f

            martin-f Plant Hardiness Zone 8b

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            Some have just started to flower :).
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            • Gail_68

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              What colour are they Martin?...or do you have a mixture as there's lots of different colours :)
               
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              Yellow i think Gail.
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              • Gail_68

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                Martin it could be or white :scratch:...as the camellia heads before flowering show like that :whistle:
                 
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