October 17, 2015 · 5:31 am
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Purple Papaveri

Do you like poppies? I sure do. My neighbour, across the back fence, has dense drifts of them just now. This makes dish washing almost a pleasure.

On a recent foray for groceries, I saw these purple beauties. I think I’ll need some like these in my palatial granny flat of the future.

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  1. Sonia A. Mascaro
    October 26, 2015 at 7:33 am

    I love poppies too!
    And the house of your neighbour is lovely.

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  2. knittingwithheart
    October 21, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Purple is such a pretty poppie colour! And here I thought they only came in red or white 🙂 ♥ ❤

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  3. blondieaka
    October 19, 2015 at 6:38 pm

    How beautiful..I love poppies just watching them wafting around in the breeze 🙂

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  4. Inger
    October 19, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    They are lovely! Unfortunately there are no flowers here anymore as we are waiting for first (well second….) snowfall 🙂

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  5. greenwritingroom.com
    October 19, 2015 at 7:44 am

    I love them too. Some years they pop up all over my garden, other years I don’t see them at all.

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  6. laurie27wsmith
    October 18, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Beautiful blooms Yvonne but they give you a bloody headache when you keep them in the house for too long.

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  8. the eternal traveller
    October 18, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    I do love poppies and I think like Bruce, these ones are opium poppies. Aren’t they gorgeous! I like to grow some Iceland Poppies every spring and I have a special vase to display the cut ones in.

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  9. Francesca
    October 18, 2015 at 11:43 am

    I also have lots of seed for this one. Once you have one in your garden, you’ll have millions. I always know them as Shirley poppies, which is a nice name for opium poppies. The seed can be popped on breads and pide.

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  11. coffeegrounded
    October 17, 2015 at 2:25 pm

    Beautiful cottage garden. I grew poppies one year, they were gorgeous, very thin and they came in an array of color. I want to say they were called, Icelandic poppies.

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  12. arlingwoman
    October 17, 2015 at 9:03 am

    There are these things called frilly poppies, which I intend to order for my garden. The purple ones are gorgeous. I love them all–pink, white red…Lucky you to have a beautiful garden out your kitchen window!

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  13. Cynthia Jobin
    October 17, 2015 at 8:03 am

    I think my mind must work in a similar vein to Bruce’s. In reading this post I immediately thought: hey! the neighbors are producing opium! Maybe Yvonne can start a little cottage industry here…..Granny Goodfeeling!

    They are indeed beautiful. My grandmother used to grow scads of them, and when I see them I think of her. They are, as you say, fugitive….like tulips, which are my favorite flowers in the whole world.

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  14. wordsfromanneli
    October 17, 2015 at 6:45 am

    I have lots of these purple ones in my garden. I save some of the seeds just in case, but they reseed themselves prolifically.

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  15. mvaden1948
    October 17, 2015 at 6:31 am

    PS. I think these are the kind they use to get the seeds to put on those lovely muffins….which reminds me…

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  16. mvaden1948
    October 17, 2015 at 6:30 am

    I love poppies! They sometimes put them in bouquets that I can get at the local framers market (about six months from now….being in that other hemisphere). But they don’t last long once cut.

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  17. doesitevenmatter3
    October 17, 2015 at 6:29 am

    I have never seen purple poppies…only the orange ones we have in CA…and the red ones which make me think of Dorothy and Toto! 🙂 These purple poppies are so beautiful! (say “purple poppies” 3 times fast! 😛 )
    I had to think about it for a minute (given my aversion to dish washing 😉 ), but that view would make dish washing a pleasure! 🙂
    HUGS and Happy Whee-kend!!! 🙂

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  18. Bruce Goodman
    October 17, 2015 at 6:12 am

    Are they not the ones you can extract opium from? Just the thing for a granny flat 😀 I always found – when I grew them – that, once flowering, they got stolen in the night!

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