A week ago the wilderness garden behind our house was all columbines. They went to seed very quickly and now it’s the foxgloves’ turn – along with the Dame’s Violets and the slender spires of purple toadflax. All self-sown and grown. I’m rather taken with the foxglove on the right, the one with creamy lips. I must remember to collect some seed, though there’s no knowing how its offspring will turn out.
The white foxgloves are lovely too. They have lime green speckles inside each flower.
And finally a view looking out over the garden wall as the sun goes down over Wenlock Edge.
Tish Farrell 
Yes, that one on the right with pale edges is gorgeous!
Isn’t is just 🙂
Beautiful. I love wild flowers.
I think it is in one of Sir Terry’s Tiffany Aching books, Tiffany’s granny disapproved of picking wild flowers, her reasoning being that, if the creator wanted you to pick flowers he would have made more.
What marvelous skewed logic!
Oh I remember reading that particular Prachett. Tiffany is a spiffing character. Wee Free Men.. It also had some deeply serious passages in it – wonderfully written.
The heath at the end of the road at my grandmother’s was full of flowers in spring and summer.
No foxgloves but loads of other stuff.
Was thinking of you earlier when I was planting out my cosmos seedlings at the allotment. They don’t seem to self-seed here as yours do, so one has to sow afresh every year.
I wonder they won’t self seed? We are almost into winter here and we still have a few cosmos sprouting!
Global warming, methinks.
I suspect they don’t like our dank winters and the seeds rot.
What a clause: “as the sun goes down over Wenlock Edge”. Reminds me of the power of the first sentence in “Out of Africa”. And you’re right: there’s no knowing how offspring will turn out.
They are pretty amazing, Tish! We have a good rash of the pink ones spreading along our edges. I love the way flowers take turns. 🙂 🙂
Such good sorts!
Those are amazing foxgloves!
Beautiful! This self-seeded garden of yours is just a delight!
Alison
It’s a bit like having an art show, though I noticed last night that there were some big brutes of thistles moving in from the field. But then they can be magnificent too, as long as one chops them down before they cover the place in thistle down. To weed or not to weed…
It really is 😊
I’m sure i’d never seen this flower before…
So lovely and well captured?
You certainly have some great wild flowers as your foreground leading to Wenlock Edge!
You have some lovelies there Tish, I really like that pale edged one – they seem to be all purple around here, but maybe I need to go on a hunt.