beauty and thorns

Spiny Bear's Breeches, Acanthus Spinosus

There is opposition in all things. Beauty and thorns. And Eve said, "Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient." Moses 5:11

This passage gives me thought to ponder.

The picture I drew from came from a book tittled 50 High- Impact. Low-Care Garden Plants. The foto I drew from showed the flowers as being more Magenta than the foto shown here. The flowers are white with pink veins. Thorny plants, but beautiful to look at. I want to grow this.