Speaking of poppies...
 

.... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)

Speaking of poppies...
 

Are you sure this is a poppy? It looks more like Trollius (commonly called
Globeflower) to me. I'm not familiar with Wood Poppy, but by what I could
see on Google it has different foliage, and this flower looks exactly like
all my Trollius.

Still a nice photo, either way.

Regards,
Rick

"Michael" wrote in message
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... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)

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On Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:16 GMT, "Michael"
wrote:

... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)

Beautiful. It has an ethereal quality of light. It glows.

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I think you're *right*, Radar. :-))

I do have a good many wood poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum) around the
gardens, and since the foliage was so similar and the flowers exactly the
same colour, I'd never looked more closely... even though what I've called a
"double" version of the same plant until now is a much taller (18-30" as
opposed to 12-20") and more robust plant.

Radar wrote:

Are you sure this is a poppy? It looks more like Trollius (commonly
called Globeflower) to me. I'm not familiar with Wood Poppy, but by
what I could see on Google it has different foliage, and this flower
looks exactly like all my Trollius.

Still a nice photo, either way.

Regards,
Rick

"Michael" wrote in message
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... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)

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joevan wrote:

On Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:16 GMT, "Michael"
wrote:

... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)

Beautiful. It has an ethereal quality of light. It glows.

That's what happens if you're silly enough to be out in the garden with a
camera as the day's first ray of sunlight hits it. :-)

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rach wrote:

"Michael" wrote in message
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... my double wood poppy is finally blooming. :-)


Sigh I LOVE poppies! I wish they grew here.

Say WHAT???

Where the heck *don't* poppies grow...?

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rach wrote:

Where the heck *don't* poppies grow...?

The hot and humid coastal south. At least, I've never been able to
get them to.

If you're talking south-coastal USA... Have you tried just scattering poppy
seeds (the ones you'd buy to make bagels or cake) in some freshly tilled
soil around mid-January to mid-February?

Those things are happy to grow almost anywhere more than 25º from the
equator, they don't need much water or feeding (but will tolerate quite a
bit of either), and they're robust, very pretty annuals. Although you
wouldn't get to choose the colour of flowers grown from grocery-store seed,
chances are pretty good you'd wind up with Dutch seed that produces pale
mauve petals that fade to deep violet centres, dark purple-brown stamens and
*tons* of seed for later plantings - or even for baking, if you're into
growing and harvesting 1000 square feet of the things or more. ;-)

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On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:13:10 -0400, "rach"
wrote:


I'm actually about 60 miles from the ocean in the southeastern USA. Maybe
I'll give that a try. I've never had luck with transplants o poppies.

The poppies I'm familiar with don't tend to transplant well.
Try sowing where you want them or transplant from pots when they are
small
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