Foxglove with Dianthus

Foxglove with dianthus

Usually I’d aim to get more of the foxglove spire in the picture, but an alternative viewpoint seemed to work better, focusing on a few spotted flowers.

The pink blurs in the background are dianthus; rose foliage neatly fills the foreground.

Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.

29 Replies to “Foxglove with Dianthus”

    1. I did wonder if the flowers looked a little sulky, but decided it would be more charitable to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    1. Foxgloves grow wild and abundantly in Lancashire, but this was in Mississippi where they treat foxgloves like bedding plants.

  1. Love the foxglove, but I used to find them notoriously hard to photograph back in the day when I did more flower photography.

    1. I quite enjoy foxgloves, but I get quite a lot of practice with them, one way or another. I find iris tricky and hibiscus.

  2. Your foxgloves reminded me of our Penstemon, and sure enough: they’re related. I’ve only seen Foxgloves farther north; I particularly remember the landscaping around the Frank Lloyd Wright house at the Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas. They were lovely, but I don’t remember the colors being as vibrant as yours.

    1. This is a bold pink. A cultivated form. The ones that grow wild in Lancashire vary from bold pink to white. I’m fondest of the very pale pink ones. Penstemon tend to be short-lived for us, but they are lovely plants (though with a similarly sulky look).

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