This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo is a close-up of one of the natural flowers that fills the Forest of Dean with delightful colour in May and June. Foxgloves spread naturally where they may, sometimes robbing the ubiquitous bracken of space, especially after the wild boar have dug up the green plague to eat its tubers. Unfortunately, very few animals will eat bracken as its fronds contain a toxin. Sometimes the Foxgloves form wide banks of colour, but mostly, they occur in narrow lines along the paths and among the trees. Insects, especially pollinators, love them, so they offer a good environment for many. They’re a welcome harbinger of summer.

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