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This blog, mostly photographs with little text, is a record of another year in the life of our garden. For the derivation of the title 'Insnared with Flowers' (original spelling) click here.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Foxgloves, lupins, Poppies and Crane'sbills

I've grown wild foxglove Digitalis purpurea in the garden for years - it seeds itself everywhere and the bees love it, and ....


... sometimes you get some interesting seedlings, like this pure white one.

Not only is it white, but the flowers are tilted upwards like trumpets rather than angled downwards like bells.


The lupins are in full flower now.

I've always liked the way that poppies seem to shrug off their bud scales. This is oriental poppy.

I can't remember which cultivar of meadow crane'sbill Geranium pratense this is, but ....

...it's especially attractive when the sun shines through the petals

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