In contrast to my recent post celebrating wild foxgloves, here’s one of several garden forms of Digitalis purpurea with cream flowers and maroon spots. Continue reading “Spotted Foxglove (And Infinite Variety)”
The Wildness of Foxgloves (Digitalis Purpurea)
While I enjoy seeing foxgloves in gardens, I can’t help comparing the straight, sturdy, varieties of commerce to wild foxgloves that weave around Lancashire’s fields and country lanes.
Rarely without some form of wave or bend – the ‘nod’ of folklore – wild foxgloves can grow with aplomb wherever they find themselves, high or low. Much of their charm is in their willy-nillyness. Continue reading “The Wildness of Foxgloves (Digitalis Purpurea)”
Foxgloves That Planted Their Own Selves
If you were to take a decently long countryside walk in summer near where I live, you’d almost certainly pass a hundred or more wild foxgloves. To (nearly) quote blogging buddy, Maureen, they’re the ones ‘that planted their own selves’. And to my eye they’re the better for it. Continue reading “Foxgloves That Planted Their Own Selves”
Wild Foxgloves (Digitalis Purpurea)
Unlike a field of sunflowers that all face the sun, wild foxgloves look every which way. Foxgloves are opportunists, growing where they fall, whether that is together in an open field or isolated in a crack halfway down a wall. Continue reading “Wild Foxgloves (Digitalis Purpurea)”
Susan Rushton 