Foxgloves (03 MAY 2011)

The foxglove plants are at different stages of flowering now. When the buds are half-open they contain a lime-green hue, their lower lips uncurl to reveal hairy, speckled throats which funnel insects to their pollen. The plants in the sunnier positions grew well until April, then we had an unusually warm month with hardly any rain, during which they stopped growing and the leaves at the bases