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.
I love poppies too!
And the house of your neighbour is lovely.
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Purple is such a pretty poppie colour! And here I thought they only came in red or white 🙂 ♥ ❤
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Same here!
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How beautiful..I love poppies just watching them wafting around in the breeze 🙂
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And, there are so many growing wild along the rail lines in Italy. What a treat.
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How lovely it’s a shame they have such a short life if picked but better to see in the wild I think 🙂
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Same here, blondieaka.
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They are lovely! Unfortunately there are no flowers here anymore as we are waiting for first (well second….) snowfall 🙂
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Uh-oh. Maybe you’ll get some snowdrops in that case. 🙂 I mean the flowers … Now, I have to go and find out where you’re from.
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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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Isn’t it nice to see them leading their own little lives?
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Beautiful blooms Yvonne but they give you a bloody headache when you keep them in the house for too long.
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I didn’t know that, Laurie.
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Especially in closed in places. Love them in the garden though.
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Fantastic!
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Get Aaron to plant some for you, Julie.
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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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Now, I have to go and talk to those people, et!
Poppies are very special flowers.
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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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Right, I’ll go ask for some seeds for the garden of my Palatial Granny Flat of the future, Francesca.
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Poppies are great
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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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That sounds lovely, caffeinated one. 🙂
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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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I definitely am lucky to have such a pretty garden (and nice neighbours) outside my kitchen window.
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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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At this rate, I’ll soon be able to travel First Class next time I go overseas! (Or, learn a new trade in the nearest Women’s Prison.)
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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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I’d never seen (or maybe never noticed) purple ones before, Anneli
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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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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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It’s like tulips, they’re so lovely, but for such a brief time when we cut them.
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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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The couple over the back are avid gardeners, which gives me a lot of pleasure, with no effort whatsoever!
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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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I’ll set up an elaborate security system around them in that case, Bruce.
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