FINDING FOXGLOVE BABIES FOR NEXT YEAR

 This is the time of the year that certain

garden chores must be done.  At least,

if you want to enjoy certain flowers in 

the spring, then they have to be done now.

This is an area near my Beatrix Potter

statuary where I want to have foxgloves.

Each Mother plant that bloomed this 

spring and into summer will now die.  However, often the mother plant and

 stalk produce little baby plants so I 

have to find them near the old plant 

that bloomed this summer.  If you don't

 get them down in some good dirt they

 get less feeding from the dying mother

 plant.

 Also, they will form two places: at the base

of the plant and on the stalk.  Here are

some I quickly found today:

Walmart and garden centers sell little

jars of root boosting powder which I use by dipping the root end of the plant in water

first and then the root powder element:

These will have time yet to form some roots before it is really cold.  It is cool out and colder at night but that is ok. 

 This photo

below shows you a mother stalk and

 how the babies formed on the stalk. 

 You carefully peal them off.

You really need to get some new fresh

garden soil surrounding these new

plants.

 

Just flipping an existing plant back shows

 you it isn't even secure in the ground

 because it was a new baby plant.  

This one was

pulled out and replanted as there are

two there.  If it is not replanted with some

good dirt it probably will just dry up

and die this winter.

Some are bigger and some

tiny but these are all babies

for next year:

leave a little stalk too:

planted in better soil below:

Many of the ones

I pulled were already

showing signs of

distress from lack

of water from the mother stem.

You may have already been remembering

that other plants do this same type of

reproduction:  such as Lambs Ear

Another example is Sweet William:

You can see these forget me nots are

very dry and these babies weren't

hardly in any dirt and will just die

unless planted and watered:

(I do not use rooting element on either of 

these 2 plants as they will take off with

just the planting and water)

Make sure you put some new fresh

quality topsoil around those

baby foxgloves:

Hopefully - next spring and early

summer you will have lots:

Late note:  someone asked me where I

got this statuary that is similar to Beatrix Potter.  Actually I have 8 pieces like these

 all around the garden.  They are (click) Campania International. 

 A while back we got a new birdbath

 which was just the same as the old

one.  We ordered it and picked it up at a garden center in St. Louis.  

I will carefully cover this one better

with a heavy black plastic bag in winter!