A Garden Surprise

I have not planted Foxglove in years.  It was a surprise to me to see one pop up next to a Japanese Anemone back in March.  Foxglove are biennial plants.  They spend one year in foliage, and then the next the bloom and die.  So my only thought was, "well, if you survive the year there, I hopefully will see a flower stalk next summer. 

Not so.  The little fellow went ahead and is blooming now!  With only a few and malformed blossoms, but non-the-less beautiful.