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Poppies!
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Eliza Waters 
They are gorgeous! Poppies have always been some of my favorites!
Thank you, Beth! Me, too. 🙂
Perfectly pretty poppies! They are so beautiful, Eliza! You care for them well!!
Thank you, Donna. They don’t like humidity, but bloom reliably every year, gotta love that! 🙂
I like the lavender/purple ones best. They look mysterious.
Thank you, Audrey. That mauve is pretty special, an old heirloom.
Love poppies – thank you!
Thank you!
I enjoyed each of these lovely blooms. They must provide great joy in your garden.
Thank you, Anne. They are the stars of the garden right now. 🙂
Perfect 🌸
Thank you, Karen! ❤
Nice and clean
Thanks!
Such wonderful colours!
Thank you! These amaze me every year and the bees adore them. 🙂
Lovely! I have just been looking at poppy seeds online for next year! 😉
Thanks! I want to get that grey one I’ve been seeing and those really dark, almost black, ones. I have best luck sowing bread seed poppies in the fall.
Gorgeous! Such beautiful colors & such an interesting flower. Your photos bring out their delicateness. I see three pollinators.
Thank you, Alice. The bees go CRAZY for the pollen/nectar. What a scramble!
Poppies are great! An undervalued plant in my opinion.
MJ
Yes, they put on a great show every year.
Enjoyed every moment💕🙏💕 They are lovely!
🙂 Thanks, Val! ❤
I’ve only seen orange poppies…had no idea they came in these gorgeous colors!
These are bread seed poppies, which are annuals, that self-sow every year. I have mauve and red (which sometimes cross to a raspberry red), but there are white, pink and doubles, and ruffled varieties, too. Quite the range!
You did have a good year of poppies. Do you save the seeds for next year?
Thank you! I let a few pods mature on the plant, then sprinkle them where I want them to grow next year. Then once they sprout in spring, I thin them to about a foot apart. So easy! 😉
Wonderful poppies! You do have the magic touch growing them.
Thank you, Hien. They are so easy, and do the magic themselves. 😉
Gorgeous, Eliza! I love the image with the bee hovering almost between the two poppies, as if trying to decide where to go first. Kind of like being at a banquet where everything looks so wonderful and you don’t know where to start. 🙂
Yes! I thought that too about the bee… “so many flowers, so little time!” Thanks, Robin. 🙂
I love poppies. I lost my favorite peach one two years ago but replaced it this year. I also added a couple more, and my red one was beautiful. I harvested some seeds and will give that a try too. One can never have too many poppies. 🙂
Agreed, they put on a great show… I love them!
I planted nothing but burgundy-flowered seed this year, & guess what? An abundance of mauve flowers! The genetics are tricky, I’d say. 😉
Yes, crosses are constant!
spectacular!
Thanks, Karen!
Such a beautiful variety, captured expertly! Love, love, love!
🙂 Thank you, Dale!
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Beautiful flowers and photos!
Thanks!
You have wonderful colors of poppies! Mine are basic orange but they knocked themselves out this year too.
Thank you,Ellen! Those papery blooms are so captivating. I could grow a whole field of them if I had the space!
I wondered briefly why I never see poppies here, and then I noticed that they don’t like humidity. There’s the beginning of an answer! A friend in the much drier hill country grows them well, and one of our seed farms sometimes has fields of them. I need to check and see if they might be blooming now.
The colors are lovely, but my favorite photo is of the wind-blown flower. Nicely done.
Thank you, Linda. I would love to create a poppy bed someday, all different ones for a succession of blooms. En masse, they are very appealing! After 31 years here, the trees have grown up and I have less and less full sun. Not great for most plants, but shade beds don’t mind. 🙂
Wow…love the range of colors here, Eliza.
Thank you, Sandy. The mauve are my favorite, but the bees love both equally. 🙂
Gorgeous! These are a plant I have never had any success with in my garden. I think I end up sticking them in a spot that’s not as sunny as they need, trying to cheat the system and it does not work…
Thank you, Loree. They thrive best in full sun, but can tolerate poor soil… perfect for a sunny hellstrip.
Such a lovely variety of colours Eliza!
Thank you, Xenia! x
Oh, Eliza, these are simply stunning! I’ve only seen the red-orange variety here, so I’m captivated by the diversity of colors. Sadly, I haven’t seen any poppies blooming to date. I wonder if we’ve perhaps had too much rain??
Thank you, Debbie! The orange ones are perennial and at least here, bloom in June, whereas these are annuals that self-sow and bloom in July. Given a sunny spot, and not too humid conditions, they do well.
Gorgeous, Eliza! The seeds I sowed produced nothing this year, not surprising given our rain issue but a disappointment nonetheless. I seem to have a problem with poppies – even California’s state flower is reluctant to bloom in my garden.
Thanks, Kris! Sorry to hear that your sowing yielded nothing. Thought to originate from the eastern Mediterranean, I’m surprised they didn’t grow for you. I’m wondering if they need some cold in winter and wet in spring to make them grow best? Maybe the lack of rain is the reason. That said, I’ve had poor luck with store bought seed. Both my red and mauve were gifted to me fresh, so I wonder if they spoil easily or are best sown immediately after harvest?
Fantastic captures, especially the one with the bee in flight. 😊❤️
Thank you, Irene. That one is my favorite, too. 🙂
We have tried poppies a few times with initial success but then failing returns. Your lovely varieties make me want to try again. 🙂
Thanks, Steve. They are pretty easy so long as they are in full sun with good air circulation. Let me know if you want me to save you some seeds.
Thanks, Eliza. I’ll take you up on your offer. And if the recent rain hasn’t rotted them I will try to harvest some of the double columbines we had flower this year and trade.
Did you cultivate these. The poppies in the countryside are also fantastic
Yes, I sprinkle the seed when they ripen in August for growth the following spring. Thanks for your comment, Agnes!
Good idea … from Diana!
Gorgeous photos!
Thank you, MB!
What brilliant colours, complete with bee 😊. Gorgeous!
Thank you, Belinda. That hovering bee is my favorite!
I guess they have. Such a variety of colors!
I like the red one best. They do not grow well for me for some reason.
Thanks, Jason. They seem to do best in hot sun, and somewhat dry soil. Humidity and rain molds them up quickly, and with all the rain we’ve been getting this week, they are heading that way.
Indeed wonderful. You have such a beautiful garden…(Suzanne)
Thank you, Suzanne!
SO gorgeous, Eliza. They look quite different than California Poppies with their intricate centers. Beautiful series! 🙂
Thank you, Jane, much appreciated! Though I love all poppies with their lovely, crepe-paper petals, I think these are my favorite.
Lovely photos and I especially enjoyed the shot of the bee trying to decide between the beautiful colors!🙂
Thank you, S. That one is my favorite, too.
Each one a masterpiece!
Indeed, they are lovely flower. Thanks, Gary!
Hey, did you feel the earthquake?
Very beautiful flowers and photos
Thank you, Karina!
Gorgeous! Such bright, happy colours!
Thank you, Maria. I love them, as do the bees. 🙂
Amazing poppies. I like.
Thanks much!
Very pretty poppies! I love how clearly the bee came out in the fourth capture. 🙂
Thank you, Barbara!
Such beautiful colors Eliza. Love them!
Thank you, Cindy, these are among my favorites. They bloom for a couple of weeks, quite the show!
One of my favorite flowers!
I can see why, they are pretty fabulous!
Indeed!
There is something about poppies that is both simple and extravagant at the same time, It must be such a pleasure to have such a show in your garden.
Thank you, Carol. I look forward to their bloom every July. The mauve, esp. with the gray-green foliage, is so lovely.
Yes the foliage really does enhance the flower colour.
My eyes are popping 🏵️ 👀
😀 Thanks, David
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Thank you for reblogging!
I just love poppies … they are mesmerizing! Your subjects and photos are beautiful and I especially like the windswept look of the 5th.
Thanks much, Denise!