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gorgeous, I love poppies

Beautiful.  I particularly like the white one.   ;D

G x

Scrumptious!

i was going WOW at the first one, and then bigger WOWs as i scrolled down.

just beautiful.

there's a red one like yours in a communal garden that i walk past near my work, i keep wondering if they'd notice if i nicked a seed pod !

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They're all fabuloso. Love em.

Can't see any prob with dead-heading for the good of the community, Kaypee......someone down our road once grew some poppies an now we've all got em. ;)

Sheer delight. (I personally think maybe GW has an artist friend who paints her pictures, so perfect ;D ;D)
Only joking GW they are beautiful
Lorna.

Greenwizzard, those poppies are BEAUTIFUL !  Just looking at them transports me back to my beautiful little garden.  :'(   Poppies and meconopsis have to be my favourite flowers.

Thank you so much for sharing your garden with us.

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Oooh I love poppies too. Lovely pics GW. There's a plot a few down from me with some giant red ones and I want them !! I HAVE to have some, it's driving me nuts heehee!

Hey Helds, I've got some giant red poppies....dunno what sort, after all these years, but you're welcome to some seedheads?

absolutely gorgeous GW  :)

I have loads of a big read oriental poppy. They are starting to go over now, but they have been great. I also have one big plant of 'Coral Reef' a pink which I prefer to the red in some ways. I also have a dainty little orange poppy I grew last year from seed, a perennial but as fleeting and delicate as an annual.

I would love to have some differnt colours of oriental poppy, especialy a white one - a colour i like at the moment. Would happily trade some of the reds for a white or a 'pattys plum' -like purple

So gorgeous GW

I have some which are almost the same colour as the first pic and when they flower, they bring the garden alive and i never ever want it to rain or to have any wind in my garden, i just want to cup them and protect them and prevent the beautiful petals from falling and having to wait for the whole cylcle next year.

I adore the pink and white ones that you have too, now i have a mission  ;D

Honeybee: Dont tak to me about wind and poppies. We had some strong dry winds just as mine were at their peak this year. The usualy long lasting (for a poppy at least) 'Coral Reef' were bashed around so much several of the blooms were lost.  The reds though semed to withstand it better and most survived but it did speed up their decline as the flowers werent the same afterwards. I supose it was because the red plants are shorter a than the actual plant and flower stems of coral reef and were thus more protected, despite the staking i had put on Coral Reef.

Ah well have to wait until next year now :( :o

Fab, Wiz! 'Specially the white one - name??

Have to be quick like a bunny to see ours - they are going over in a day!!

We used to have doubles self-seeding all over, but in the last couple of years they've disappeared.

QuoteFab, Wiz! 'Specially the white one - name??

i'll have a look for a label once the rain has stopped.........but don't hold your breath t

sorry t :( labels long gone :(

I am not up to speed on poppy names. I only know a few, one of which I have which is 'Coral Reef', one i grew from seed. I have no Idea what the name of my red one is. A red oriental poppy is a red oriental poppy to me.

The only white one I know is 'Perrys White' It has a nice story behind it if anyone knows it.  Dont know the names of the other white oriental poppies, but I know they exist.

The other poppy name I know is of course 'Pattys Plum', the purple-y coloured one.

Thanks for trying, Wiz.

Hi all,

Norfolk is famous for its poppies. Poppies of all kinds but mostly wild red ones self seed on the allotments here and I put the dried plants in spare places to give them a helping hand. When I weed I try to leave them in place when they are seedlings and if they get to more than a few inches high I figure they`ve earn`t the right to flower wherever they are. I have some that are actually in a nice straight row on the edge of my strawberry patch.

The spare plot where I accidently dropped a couple of rows of king edwards is thick with them and looks like a wildflower meadow so I won`t strim it back until the poppies are over.

If I remember I`ll make some seeds available as a "swap" later in the year.
(remind me please)

Col