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Eliza Waters 
These are ever so pretty! I have only seen pale pink ones like this – and I spot a much darker one in the background. Lovely to see.
Thank you, Anne. I have both red and mauve, which sometimes cross pollinate, creating raspberry and wine colors, which are delightful surprises!
Delicately pretty!!!!
Thanks, Dee! Those blooms are amazing, aren’t they?
They are. And the flower so intricate. A work of art, really
Magical!
Agreed! Thanks, Audrey! 🙂
Aren’t they stunners!
That they are, 🙂 thanks, Cindy!
Beautiful 💕
Thank you, Karen! x
Fabulous colour and photo
Thank you, Sheree!
Wonderful! If I had those growing in my garden they would make me very happy. 😃
Thank you, Cathy. They really are wonderful and self-sow readily, as well as cross pollinate creating raspberry and wine colors, so beautiful!
😃👍
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Who can resist purple flowers, especially when they are loaded with pollen covered anthers?
Yes, these are annual favorites. I have red and mauve that I keep in separate beds to minimize crossing, but this year, there is a splendid wine-colored cross, that I hope returns true, but one never knows with P. somniferum.
What a lovely shade of purple! Gorgeous poppies!
Thank you, Barbara!
So frilly, and an amazing color. Hoping the bees have found them.
I love these poppies. I keep checking and so far few bees. Yesterday, I saw two honeybees, but they were on the catmint. I told them to go back and tell the hive!
I sure hope they listened to the wise gardener…maybe you should learn the ‘bee-flower-dance.’
😀 Yes!
Guess what? They did just what I said and this morning the whole hive was swarming over the whole patch! Thrilled me no end! 🙂
So pretty Eliza! 😍
Thanks, Julie!
I’m still surprised when I see poppies that aren’t orange. I was introduced to them in California, where they cover the hills in spring, and that’s “poppy” to me. That said, what a luscious color!
Thank you, Linda. There are lots of different species of poppies and most are in the red, white and purple range … there are Oriental poppies which have lush orange blooms and many cultivars that are salmon, red and white. Those CA poppies you mention aren’t true poppies, their genus is Eschscholzia, while poppies are Papaver! Common names can be deceiving… even some mallows carry the name ‘poppy.’ Nature is amazing. I was blessed to see a CA super bloom once and seeing this hills covered in orange is unforgettable!
I’ve seen red and white ones at Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg. Fields full of those are equally beautiful.
Pretty purple poppies! 💜 (I just had to roll the Ps 😉) The color is gorgeous!
Thank you, Donna! Perfect alliteration. 🙂
Outstanding! I love them!
Thank you, Hien!
Purplelicious purple!
🙂 Sure is!
😀
Beautiful! 💜
Thank you, Carrie!
The colour and detail is wonderful!
Thank you, Belinda! One of my favorites.
Simply love that color, Eliza.
Thank you, Sandy. An old heirloom that happily self-sows every year.
That’s even better.
What beautiful colours!
Thank you, Susan!
So beautiful — just proves once again that Nature really is the best color designer!
Thanks, Debbie, so true!
Ooh, I like these.
Thank you, Jill. The color astounds me!
Beautiful purple poppies Eliza! 💜
Thank you, Xenia! 🙂
*SIGH* I received an “invitation” to pre-order bulbs, including Papaver orientale roots with flowers similar to those you photographed, from a seller this morning. I’ve had zero success with poppies in the past but I looked into what the Sunset Western Garden Book had to say, only to find that even my Sunset zone is well outside of range 😦
Gorgeous.
Thank you, David!
Such richness. 🙂
Truly! 🙂
Oh, that color! Gorgeous!
Thank you, Tina! 🙂
I can think of a dozen adjectives to describe these beautiful flowers, but they all seem inadequate. Beautiful!
Thank you, Judy! 🙂
Beautiful color!
Thank you, Nancy!
What gorgeous color, Eliza. I wonder if someone bred it simply for the alliterative pleasure of being able to call them purple poppies. 😊
Thanks, Tanja. It was an old heirloom found at a Victorian house owned by my sister in the 80s, when you couldn’t find this type of poppy seed for sale. Nowadays, you see all sorts available.
How interesting. I wouldn’t have expected this to be an heirloom but a newer creation.
Oooooo. Want. 🤗❤️
🙂
Pretty purple poppies portrait, Eliza.
Thanks– great alliteration, Steve!
🙂
Very lovely poppy photo…what a rich and elegant color!
Thank you, Jet. 🙂
Eliza, you really captured the details of the pretty poppies beautifully. Well done! 😊👏
Thank you very much, Pepper!
Such gorgeous rich colour!
Thank you, Maria! The show lasts about two weeks and I’m loving it. 🙂
The Online Etymology Dictionary offers this insight about the word poppy: “Associated with battlefields and war dead at least since Waterloo (1815), an association cemented by John McCrae’s World War I poem, they do not typically grow well in the soil of Flanders but were said to have been noticeably abundant on the mass graves of the fallen French after 1815, no doubt nourished by the nutriments below. Poppy-seed is from early 15c.; in 17c. it also was a small unit of length (less than one-twelfth of an inch).”
Thanks for adding this info to the post, Steve.
Beautiful such vibrant colours 🙂
Aren’t they amazing? they a joy to behold.
Stunning, lush purples, Eliza. And the interior of the blooms is captured so well.
Thank you kindly, Jane. ❤
Wow that is beautiful. Never seen a purple one
Thanks, Vinny, an old heirloom discovered at my sister’s house in the 80s. Been coming back annually ever since.
Really unusual it’s lovely.
Thank you. 🙂
That is interesting. I don’t think I’ve seen purple poppies before either. Orange, yellow, and the various red species of course.
They are starting to be more common as more people grow them. I love when the red and purple cross and the blooms come out raspberry to burgundy wine coloured. But I must guard the originals in separate beds so they aren’t lost.
Beautiful! I love those centers … great sharp detail!
Thank you very much, Denise. The bees adore them!