Sunday, July 24, 2011

Poppies

A coworker of Adam's gave him a huge container of poppy seeds from her garden from the previous year.  Adam was so excited to grow poppies.  To our surprise, there was a huge variety of poppies in this container that produced at least 30 flowers from about 7 different varieties.  They are the strangest looking flowers.  

Once we realized that there was such a huge variety of poppies, it was really fun to step outside everyday and see what new shape and color would appear.  Unfortunately, the flower lasts 24-48 hours, the green plant part looks like a weed and you can't mulch around it or it rots.  So, next year the poppies will be moved to the vegetable garden and out of my flower area.

Here is a sample:







3 comments:

  1. Did they just come up now? Everyone who had poppies by us had them bloom really early (May or June). I heard Adam talk about them and bought some seeds but figured I just planted them way too late. You have me wondering though if yours are coming up now...

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  2. Kate, he planted them soooo late that they have just finished blooming. I'm sure they were supposed to planted weeks and weeks before we did.

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