North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Foxglove

Every year, I vow that I will get some good photos of the huge clumps of foxgloves that grow in the woods near my home. And every year, I forget about it until most of the flowers are little more than green stalks and empty pods where the blossoms have fallen off. This flower was the last survivor of a group of flowers that have colonised a clearing in a forestry plantation in Galway.