Unknown Purple Flower or Buds

Walking through the Lurie Gardens in Chicago's Millennium Park, I came across these flowers dotted here and there. Not sure if they are buds about to bloom or if this is the actual flower.

[Joan Robillard]

Lovely

[Shanne]

interesting looking flower - a bit like a lupin

[Pyrrhula]

A great close up of this nice , comming, flower.

[Lee]

Love the DOF and detail.

[Pam Knowler]

Very pretty and delicate flower. Lovely focus and dof!

[Diane]

Beautiful! Great DOF.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

gorgeous DOF :)

[Beryl Lloyd]

Wonderful focus , dof ! I wonder what flower it is !!

[Lou Ann]

So pretty. I at first thought it could be an agapanthus, but it’s blooms go up, not down.

[Lois]

Very pretty!

[gloria jones]

Wonderful focus, dof

[Harry J Benson]

good composition and dof

[Jane Pittenger]

Don’t know but nice dof, bokeh, color, sharpness

[Louise & Ken]

Lovely placement and DOF... How I'd love to return to Chicago in the spring again sometime!

[Diana]

Whatever it is, it is a stunning capture with everything that has been said above, fav!

[Marnie]

No idea what it is, but I like the shot.

[Issi Bannerman]

Don't know what it is, but this is a stunning image of it!

[haskar]

Lovely dof and colour

[Casablanca]

No idea, is it a kind of Penstemon Grandiflorus? Lovely dof and composition. I do love looking at flowers I don't recognise! So much diversity in nature.

[Angela]

We have a similar plant in the UK called million bells

[sarah]

Beautiful

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely capture

[Angelika van Rooyen]

Green and purple is such a great color combination, nice capture!

[Rob Z]

Great shot - I hope you get to see what they do....

[Helen Jane]

such a lovely image of this interesting flower. So pretty.

[Kathy A]

They are very pretty

[*lynn]

fabulous DOF