There have been a lot of comments here recently about sowing too many of one type of seed.
For me it started 8 months ago when I felt the urge to get some good old-fashioned, cottage garden inspired foxgloves back into my flower border.
I bought some Yates "Foxy" and "Coral Chimes" seeds and sowed them in containers. Literally every single tiny seed produced a seedling. I pricked them out and ended up with around 80 seedlings - way too many for my little garden.
They have been distributed around all of my gardening friends - anyone who happened to call in for a cuppa left here with a six pack of foxgloves!
The remaining plants I have shoved in here and there in the flower garden and there is a concentration of foxy's next to our herb garden which had recently been cleared of a feijoa - moved because it was taking over our bedroom window. I have other plans (dahlia's and other perennials) for this garden in summer but in the next few weeks I think my foxy's are going to reward me with quite a show.
I'll make sure to update you with a photo when they bloom.
Sometimes a glut is not such a bad thing.
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