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.
One of the most amusing sights I’ve seen in a garden was lots of foxgloves bedded out neatly in a row, all facing forwards. I wondered what the person who planted them would think about their seedlings?
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day and for Becky’s KindaSquares as they are kindred.
Susan Rushton 
Gardening by ruler-and-set square always seems a most pointless pursuit. Usually though Nature gets the upper hand in the end.
It always makes me smile to see a topiary garden that needs a haircut.
🙂
Do you suppose they are the spies of the flower world? 😉
Very astute, Laurie.
wow that’s amazing to get them all in a line facing the same way – dedication kinda verging on the bonkers!
I imagine they were bought potted and in flower and that the gardener had never seen them growing wild.
That would make sense, a lot of plants to buy! Hope they have learnt about what happens after they seed!!!
Very beautiful 💜💜💜💜💜
Thank you!
You’re very welcome indeed 🌺💝
Beautiful foxgloves ;D
Thanks, Cee.
They look very sociable, don’t you think? — almost chatty.
They have a market day feel to them. Unless they are spies as Laurie suggested.
Foxgloves are among those plants that make themselves at home in gardens that aren’t overly “managed.” Last spring I saw a gorgeous procession of them along a gravel road. Not managed at all, except by nature.
Nature does the best job with them.
We had far more than usual this year
I trust that was a good thing.
Definitely
I love how they just pop up where they want to. 🙂 (But I bet that the neat-freak will have a fit when the seedlings do their own thing, hehe!)
Let’s hope they mellowed in time.