The poppies came with the house a decade ago — one of the few flowers that did. Of course I didn't like where they were planted, in one of the otherwise weed-filled terraced gardens in the back yard, so I dug them out and gave them their own round bed in the middle of the lawn. They grew there happily, but they also kept growing in the terraced area I thought I'd dug them out of. So I had two beds of poppies.
A few years later I started to grow tired of mowing around the round, random poppy bed, so I dug them up and moved them to the edge of the vegetable garden fence.
Where they grew happily — along with the poppies in the terraced bed
and the poppies in the random round bed. Three beds of poppies.
Poppies really do bloom where they're planted (and replanted, and replanted). When I want to make more of them I just reach for the shovel and start to dig.
The poppies came with the house a decade ago — one of the few flowers that did. Of course I didn't like where they were planted, in one of the otherwise weed-filled terraced gardens in the back yard, so I dug them out and gave them their own round bed in the middle of the lawn. They grew there happily, but they also kept growing in the terraced area I thought I'd dug them out of. So I had two beds of poppies.
A few years later I started to grow tired of mowing around the round, random poppy bed, so I dug them up and moved them to the edge of the vegetable garden fence.
Where they grew happily — along with the poppies in the terraced bed and the poppies in the random round bed. Three beds of poppies.
Poppies really do bloom where they're planted (and replanted, and replanted). When I want to make more of them I just reach for the shovel and start to dig.
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Gorgeous. I drive by a house that has a hufe bed of poppies in the middle of their lawn. I look forward each year to their blooming. So far I only have two clumps, 3 plants really. A single orange/red traditional one up on the hill that I bought as a baby plant and my coral reef poppies I grew from seed. They only had two blooms last year. This year I've got maybe 4 buds. Some day I'll have a big happy clump or clumps, like you.
(I've still got your seeds. God knows when I'll get them out. They last for years though. The packet I started mine from were 2 years old)
love poppies so much, and you've captured them perfectly with that glowing light. i grew a variety one year called champagne bubbles (i think) and they were shades of pink and rose and cream and silvery gorgeousness.
i love how tenacious they are.
Yet to plant poppies... I have a seed packet or two. Someday I'll get to it! They are lovely....
and, thought of you yesterday when I discovered mouse poop in my car (ok, commuting to work means eating breakfast in the car, and, well, crumbs...) So, went to vacuum finally... all clean, then a little flash of fur while driving and I realized I had a co-pilot! Wondering about that little trap of yours.... !
I guess one just cannot have too many poppies. The light on the orange color is wonderful as are all of your photos. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
I had to laugh, I have had more garden beds taken over by Poppies I tried to move else where!
They're so short lived...I don't mind where they decide to move themselves. I love the color of yours. Mine are salmon...and I would rather the orange, but happy to have the salmon.
Hope you're enjoying your Sunday.
Thanks for sharing your beauties.
I'm far from seeing my poppies bloom yet. That seems so unusual to me: you are there on the east coast where you get so much more snow than we do, yet, your poppies are blooming, and blooming and blooming! Maybe I DO need to move to the east coast. I have been threatening for years! maybe when I win the HGTV Dream Home I'll be your neighbor and can dig up my own clump.
I love all poppies.Perhaps because Iceland Poppies were among the "easy" seeds my mother gave me for my first garden.
There must be many different types of poppies — size, colors, bloom time, etc. I'd like to find out more about them. I have some smaller reseeding types that won't bloom until later this summer. They seem like a pretty ideal family of flower.
Valerianna, in the car?! I would have had to pull over I think, for fear of my copilot running up my leg!
I miss seeing poppies around in the summer time, I used to see them all the time growing up...I love the light playing in the petals...
i'm quite obsessed with poppies these days - i have yet to grow any, but i will be tattooing some onto my body later this year.
Lovely, they look like bits of sunrise.
(inevitable and fixed as sunrise too...)
oh, just beautiful.
yes... IN THE CAR! But my mouse co-pilot never appeared again, I'm happy to report. I left the window open when I got home, and, after vacuuming the crumbs, there wasn't much to keep her there. I would have been startled if she had run up my leg, but, since I saw evidence, I sort of expected it.. GOOD THING!
And so far no more poop. I think she left.
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