(Not) Digitalis by auntietk

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Mar 10, 2008

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This is digitalis, better known as foxglove. Check it out in full view - it looks frosted, doesn't it? I didn't do that in postwork - it came that way! :) Another shot from Ann's wonderful garden, taken last July. Sorry - when I go to Ann's the sneak factor is always zero. She calls me and gives me a list of things that are in bloom, and I go out and take pictures when she thinks there's enough stuff to shoot! Spring hasn't quite sprung around here, but it's getting ready! I've got two daffodils in bloom, and the heather is gorgeous right now. There are a few very early flowering cherries just starting up, and there's a certain variety of pale pink rhododendron that blooms in February and March. The orchestra is tuning up! :) ..... Edit note: Dang! Dennis and Deb are right - these don't look like foxglove! (Although the foxglove in my garden is ALL purple!) I don't think they're canterbury bells, though. Andrea? Chris? Help! .......... Second edit note: I asked Ann -- this is penstemon.

Comments (51)

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Richardphotos

9:56PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

I was just thinking Foxgloves. very beautiful and superb macro

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amlondono

9:58PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Beautiful capture ! Excellent Macro, Ana

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bpclarke

9:58PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

A lovely capture. Wonderful textures and colors. Bunny

thevolunteer

10:05PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Beautiful macro. I have never seen this type before. Now I know what they look like. Aloha

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lizzibell

10:06PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Beautiful...

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mickeyrony

10:06PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Completely splendid these flutes I still adore this color also Bravo for the excellence of your assets Mile mercies my Beautiful for this passion ((5++)) Complètement magnifique ces flutes. J'adore cette couleur aussi Bravo pour l'excellence de tes atouts Mile mercis encore ma Belle pour cette passion ((5++))

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babuci

10:07PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Never know maybe one day you will shoot a flower catalogue for her and send it out for regular customers in season. Wonderful purple color captured here, I do love it.

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beachzz

10:13PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Very wonderful, there are foxgloves around here, but nothing's ready yet; I did just see my very first plum blossoms today and that's always a hopeful sign!

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nongo

10:22PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

I think this plant has medicinal properties, in that, it helps to regulate an irregular heart beat. Besides being beautiful!!!! I love that plants are here for us to enjoy & reap their benefits too!!!!!

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cmolsen2002

10:24PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

What a GORGEOUS shot! The macro is incredible, showing so beautifully the velvety backs and the painted tissue paper faces! Wonderful!

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goodoleboy

10:43PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Superlative composition of the plant with beautiful deep purple colors, sharp clarity and textures enhanced by fine lighting effects in this quality macro, my dear! Looks like a sprinkling of fine powder on the blooms. Also, a medicine is made from the leaves of digitalis, which is used as a heart stimulant.

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Merrylee

10:45PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Your ahead of us with your daffodils, but there coming....nice shot.

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Digitaleagle

10:46PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

Beautiful image, wonderful color and detail on a very beautiful flower!!

frankie96

11:37PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

We have daffodils also and a lot of the flowering trees are in full bloom.. a harbinger of things to come..and it does look like sugar coating on the blooms..

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Cosine

11:44PM | Mon, 10 March 2008

These are quite beautiful, Tara. I love this color. I hate to be a PITA, but when I mentioned to Deb that I'd never seen Foxglove that wasn't either white or pink, she looked over and said "that's not Foxglove." So of course we proceeded to look them up. I believe they're Campanula medium, common name Canterbury bells. At least they're not ducks, although I'm sure they would float. :-)

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Chipka

12:46AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

This is absolutely GORGEOUS, Tara...I love the rich, vibrant color and the light/texture combination you've caught. You have such an eye! The rich, purple inner veins are utterly beguiling to me! Great work!

MrsLubner

12:59AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

Ok, I bump heads here. I have grown foxglove several times and it looks like it to me. Wikipedia says: The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow. The best-known species is the Common Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. It is a biennial, often grown as an ornamental plant due to its showy flowers, that range in colour from purples through to whites, with variable marks and spotting. This blue could be a hybrid variety since I have grown a "purple" that is very near this color. In this day of cultivation, I can not rule out a color variation but the structure is exactly what I see on Wikipedia's site. Excellent shot on top of it all. :-)

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Doriutz

1:30AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

Excellent colors, light and details :)

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jeroni

2:40AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

Beautiful capture ! Excellent Macro

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artaddict2

3:02AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

A lovely macro. It looks like the foxglove to me yet I'm fascinated to see a Foxglove this colour, I have only ever seen Pink and not as common a white. Looking at it again the foxglove I have seen has dots of colour inside the throat and not the stripey lines. ? However its a beautiful capture, hope your day goes well Tara.

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JeffG7BRJ

3:34AM | Tue, 11 March 2008

I'm with the 'Not a foxglove group'. My mother used to have loads of foxgloves in her garden, and they were not like this. Check out this site Tara:- http://www.cotswoldimages.co.uk/cgi-bin/SHPLoader.cgi?../flowers/foxgloves.htm These are foxgloves as I remember them, Alan is correct with the dots and not stripes inside the bell. Whats in a name, they look beautiful, and with the frosting look good enough to eat. I would not recomend eating though, text from the above site reads as follows (The Foxglove was once used widely in folk-medicine despite it’s high toxicity. In the eighteenth Century the botanist and physician William Withering discovered the use of the foxgloves ingredients digitoxin and digoxin which are still widely used today as heart stimulants.) Maybe not a sneak factor Tara, but a health warning maybe.lol. Excellent capture. Bravo!!!!!

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