Beloved by Bees

The foxglove, Digitalis pupurea, is beloved by bees and Greygirl has six growing in the garden.  At the moment they are all foliage and getting lusher day by day.
Derek Jarman in his book 'Modern Nature' writes wonderfully well about these darlings...

The foxglove, folksglove or fairyglove - whose speckles and freckles are the marks of elves' fingers, is also called dead man's fingers.  It contains the poison Digitalis, first used by a Dr. Withering in the 18th century to cure heart disease.

The 'glove' comes from the Anglo-Saxon for a string of bells, 'gleow'.