Foxglove painting

I love the painting. It would look wonderful on fabric, I’m thinking cushion covers.

Maggiemaybe, they are indeed toxic if eaten but apparently they taste horrible so that rarely happens. It is best to wear gloves when dealing with them as the poison can enter through an open wound. The cardiac glycosides produced are used in heart medicine. As the leaves are sometimes mistaken for comfrey it is usually people attempting “alternative medicine” who suffer.

Purplepixie I hope it's going to take pride of place on your wall.

Beautiful. what a brilliant talent to have .It must bring you pleasure and peace in these difficult times.

That's beautiful. We have some in the garden and the bees don't seem to know they are toxic! It's very noisy when the bee gets right inside a flower.

I would give anything to be able to paint it must be so rewarding. The closest I ever got to something like your beautiful painting was an embroidery which was not in the same league as your painting. Do you have any other flower paintings?

Purple that is beautiful. You are so talented. X

Thank you. It's painted using watercolours.

Lovely, Purplepixie. We’ve had a brilliant display of foxgloves in the garden this year (we’ve not had them before). I was surprised when a friend said that they’re toxic- I can remember putting my fingers in the flowers when I was little, pretending they were my gloves.

wow Purplepixie, that's lovely. What is the medium?

That’s beautiful, Purplepixie.