A Foxglove Summer!

Wow! I cannot believe the Foxglove blooming on the mountain this year. Just gorgeous!

All shades of pink! It truly is one of my favorite flowers. Below is a little information on the plant. 

I am going to create and paint a couple of paintings of foxglove...

such fascinating detail, shadows and color varieties.

Foxglove Foxglove bears tall, dramatic spikes of tubular flowers with speckled throats. Foxglove blooms in midsummer and adds elegance to a perennial border, woodland area, or shade garden.  The name foxglove is formed of the elements fox and glove. The name is recorded in Old English as foxes glofe/glofa 'fox's glove', though there it does not refer to Digitalis. Although the elements of the name are transparent, their meaning is not. Because it is not clear why the flower should be called foxglove, other etymologies have been offered. Henry Fox Talbot (1847) proposed folks' glove, where folk means fairy. Similarly, R. C. A. Prior (1863) suggested an etymology of foxes-glew, meaning 'fairy music'.  Foxglove's low-growing foliage is topped by 2- to 5-foot-tall flower spikes, depending on the variety. Flower colors include pink, red, purple, white, and yellow. Foxgloves are biennials or short-lived perennials. However, although individual plants may be short-lived, foxglove readily self-sows and multiplies. Foxglove leaves contain digitalis, a potent heart medicine, and are considered poisonous. But you have to admit simply beautiful? Don't you agree? Enjoy! Your Artist Friend in the Wilds, Jennifer