Foxglove - Excelsior Mixed

Foxglove Excelsior Mix is a hardy biennial, that flowers the year after sowing.

• Sow outdoors in a seed bed, 0.5cm deep and directly into finely prepared soil which has already been watered.
• Seedlings appear in 21-35 days.
• Thin seedlings to 5cm apart when large enough to handle, keep moist and weed free.
• Plant out to flowering position in autumn, allowing 25cm between plants.
• Sow indoors 0.5cm deep, in a tray of compost.
• Water well and place in a cold frame, unheated greenhouse or on a warm kitchen windowsill.
• Keep moist.
• Transplant individually when large enough to handle to 8cm pots.
• Hold seedlings by a leaf, never by the stem.
• Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions before planting out 25cm apart.
• Average 2500 seeds