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#96669 August 1st, 2006 at 04:39 AM
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Good Morning!

So this might be one of those flowers that most of you will know- I just don't have a clue though... kissies

#96670 August 1st, 2006 at 04:51 AM
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Can we see the bottom of it...
Like the leaves and how it comes out of the ground??

It looks like a foxglove to me...

#96671 August 1st, 2006 at 05:03 AM
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Hey Weezie! I can take a picture of the bottom pretty quick here... I'm hoping it will be up within the hour... flw

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Here's a quick picture of some of mine....
There's some leaves on the bottom right
as you look at the picture....
do they look similar, sorta????
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#96673 August 1st, 2006 at 05:07 AM
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Your picture is of the flowers at the very
top, mine are just starting..
so there may be a slight difference..

#96674 August 1st, 2006 at 05:13 AM
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Your flowers seem to be in the shape of bells that sort of hang right? Mine are very close to the stem and are bunched together quite tightly. I have hubby going to take a picture of it pretty quick; one of the ground/ leaves and a close up of the stem/ top flowers.

Thanks for helping Weezie! kissies I've been doing my best looking for an ID of this flower on my own for the past week and have come up blank. smile

#96675 August 1st, 2006 at 05:17 AM
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If it's the same,
when mine start out, they look like bells..

Yours is at the top....

Here's a picture of another one..
[img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/P1010020abc.bmp[/img]

But yours is a Double stem..
*meaning both sides*

I'm pretty sure it's the same..

but that's why I'd like to take a peak
at the leaves..

When ever you get the picture..
don't rush..
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so I'll get it when you post*** thumbup flw

#96676 August 1st, 2006 at 05:22 AM
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Thanks, I'll have it up in about 20 minutes. We are re-landscaping our back yard and it was a question of what to do with this plant.

#96677 August 1st, 2006 at 05:31 AM
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Okay, I'm scooting out in about 20 minutes to go
pick up my oldest from Summer Rec,
but I'll peak at it after (if you post it after I leave) just wanted you to know I didn't vanish on you...

#96678 August 1st, 2006 at 05:39 AM
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Ok so here are a few more pictures... Foxglove is looking pretty good to me now that I saw the leaves...

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Please mind the droop- it's a blazing hot day today and it seems the morning/ mid afternoon sun got to it (Hubby is watering them now)


Here is a picture of it closer up... My hubby is taller than me and it appears they are bell shaped too- my height approx. 1 1/2 feet below him takes a different picture it seems! laugh

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THANKS! I'm a zone 3. Weezie, if I were to transplant this flower, do you see it being a problem?

#96679 August 1st, 2006 at 05:46 AM
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Yep, that's a FoxGlove..
*See inside the bell of the picture you took,
see those spots/dots.. that's a sign of a foxglove.*

Moving it?????
Older foxgloves resent being moved...
*they have a good sized tap root once established..*

I move small one's with no problem..
But never moved the big ones...

Do you have time to let those big ole seed pods brown up and give you about a ba~zillion new plants?????

If you can, once they turn brown, dry up, up can then rototil up a nice spot, sprinkle a pod or two over the top of the exposed dirt/soil and you should see babies sprouting there by fall time...

***I have never cut down one while it's still green *that big stalk* so I can't advise one way or the other on that, to cut it down early??*** Duh

#96680 August 1st, 2006 at 05:56 AM
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Hmmmm kissies

#96681 August 1st, 2006 at 07:28 AM
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Well sorta...

Go back and look at your picture,
*or even the plant*

Look at the stem..

Where each flower WAS,
there's a green pod...

That pod, will mature in time,
*I'd say about 3,4~8 weeks*
and some may even start to open
up a bit, almost like a clam shell..

They'll be ready to be EVER SO GENTLY,
pull off the pod..
Or most of the time I leave the whole stalk
and just shake where I want them..

But you will get 100's of seeds per one pod...

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You can even pot up some REGULAR GARDEN SOIL,
*no potting soil needed, they like plain soil*
and sprinkle some of those dried seed pods on top of the dirt..

I do it in little 6 pks, or 2" pots, fill with soil, then sprinkle on top of dirt, and leave outside over winter... so they get their "chilling time" they require to grow..

And come spring time watch 'em grow...

*do this in the end of summer/fall time and they will get a start on their foliage (*should*) and then come this time next year, should bloom.*

#96683 August 1st, 2006 at 07:57 AM
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Weezie! kissies

Thank you sooo much! .... especially for spelling it out for me; I've never dealt with Foxglove before. That is exactly what I'm going to do- in 4-8 weeks from now wink sprinkle the seeds on some soil in 2" pots and winterize!

Need some Foxglove seeds? wink laugh

#96684 August 1st, 2006 at 10:00 AM
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Hey anytime..

Those are one of my most favoritest flowers..
My Granny used to grow those...
and we used to pull the bells off of them
and make skirts for dresses for flower dolls..
*and Hollyhock petals too*

*********A bid watchout for the FOXGLOVE,
as it's POISONOUS...*REMEMBER, DIGATALIS AND HEART MEDICINE* that's it*********

#96685 August 2nd, 2006 at 04:11 AM
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That's too cute- you made little skirts?! cool Adorable.

Since you helped me ID the flower, I've being looking everything up online. I was shocked to read it is poisonous- any special precautions you know of that I should take when taking seeds? I also have a new puppy so this plant is definitely out of our back yard and into the front yard....

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I really have never heard of any special
treatment handling the seeds...

I believe, it would be eating/digesting any part of the plant that would give you the problem..
*I would advise to wash your hands maybe
after gathering or sowing the seeds, but I am not sure you have to go that far, I can't remember doing it myself*
but better safe than sorry........

I have had dogs up on the hill, and we lived next door to my grandmother who had these, and
no dog ever got after them...
Not to say, all dogs are the same..
I would suggest just basically to keep a small eyeball on the pup, and make sure he's not gotten into it at some point..

You'd be suprised that there is alot of poisonous plants to people/animals there are...


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