Foxgloves are beautiful flowers and very easy to grow. They look wonderful in gardens or growing wild in fields, where they can look amazing mixed amongst other wild flowers.
The foxgloves in the photographs below are growing at the bottom of a large garden, where they have self-seeded and are just growing as wild flowers.
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| Foxgloves growing wild at the bottom of a Suffolk garden |
The beauty of the plants is that they come in a great number of shades of pinks and white. I love their tall spikes.
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| Wild foxgloves in a Suffolk garden |
These great flowers have also been the inspiration for designer knitwear - such as on this vintage hand knitted cotton cardigan. It is covered with vases filled with flowers - jerberas, muscari and foxgloves - with climbing wisteria flowers twirling round the top part of the front and back.
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| Hand knit cardigan covered with vases of flowers and climbing wisteria |
3-D foxgloves are growing round the lower part of the body and sleeves on another vintage hand knitted cardigan. This time clematis twirls around the top part of the cardigan, with bees dotted between the flowers.
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| Hand knit foxglove and clematis cotton cardigan |
The amazing group of tall, spiky, pale pink foxgloves in the photograph below was growing in the garden of a house I visited some time ago.
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| Flower bed full of light coloured foxgloves |
Don't they just look absolutely incredible?
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