Thursday 24 June 2010

Poppies






If you grow poppies at all,the garden really needs to be seen every day at the moment; the beauty of the poppies is so fleeting, they seem to appear from nowhere, flower, then disappear again in the space of a day or two. The seedheads remain ofcourse, and I leave mine to seed around where they will. I'm delighted that the purple opium poppies are now getting established here - it's taken a number of years, though, but they're here and happy at last. The little Shirly poppies are too exquisite to even try to describe, so I'll leave you with the photos. :)

2 comments:

nocton4 said...

lovely poppies, wonderful colours.
we have some in the garden this year that have self-seeded, very lucky xx

Anonymous said...

Marvellous! Love poppies, they are so in your face for so few days