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Sat, Jun 25, 11 at 11:49
| I got one foxglove plant at a swap last year. It was a huge beautiful magenta bloomer. This year it's putting up a white bloom. What?! If I got two plants in the pot I sure couldn't tell it was two--looked like one. Is it possible for foxglove to change color like that depending on soil conditions? I know it's a biennial, but some biennials blooms the second year and continue on for some years after that, so I don't have any reason to believe it's not the same plant..except for that color change! It is the only tall foxglove in the garden so I know I'm not mixing it up with another plant. I have dwarf yellows, but this is the only tall one. I do have some that I WS last year and are putting up blooms for the first time this year, but they are in a completely different part of the garden (because the seed was labeled Green Wizard Rud--another garden surprise!) and this one would not be a part of that group. I wouldn't have planted any of those with the tall one because I didn't know until this year they were foxgloves.
Can foxgloves change colors, or do I have a hidden stow-away foxglove from the swap? |
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| I don't think Foxglove can change color. My guess is that there were 2 plants in the clump. |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 26, 11 at 9:39
| If a selection of common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, then the exact coloring is extremely variable. Anywhere from a dark magenta purple, through all shades of pink, to pure white. And yes, the flower color is quite likely to change from year to year. The genetics that control color allow this to occur, which is why you seldom see many named forms of common foxgloves - the color is not stable. In my location, these plants are naturalized in many areas (considered quite weedy) and this variation in coloring is very obvious. |
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