Opium Poppies flowering

Hi Balcony, just love poppies i have some orange ones in my garden at the moment ..you are lucky to have them on the allotment, the purple ones are beautiful..i know i shouldnt ..but i did bring some seeds from a few red ones from Majorca the other week..shh dont tell anyone..lol :o)

They are beautiful Balcony:) I love opium poppies, and have them all over my garden. Like Joanella, I must admit to nicking a seed head from a local park about 20 years ago...I've not been without them since ;)

Love them, especially the purple ones;0)

I took a few more photos of them today, from a different angle & close up. There are more flowers open as well :-))

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nice drift !!

I thought they were some kind of weed - well, they are actually, according to at least one dictionary meaning: A weed is a plant in the wrong place! Therefore a Rose in the Cabbage patch would constitute a weed! LOL!

According to that definition our allotment is full of weeds! I have left Sunflowers to spring up all over the place as well as these Poppies! But I root up Potatoes & Tomatoes that are springing up where I don't want them!

Incredible as it may seem there are Tomato seedlings springing up in several places! Somehow the seeds have survived our very hard winter & extremely hot & dry April! I've left a couple of them to grow but they aren't getting special treatment!

Lovely poppies Balcony. I have a few rogue potato plants growing in my garden between the runner beans and am leaving them there.

It's great isn't it when self sown seeds spring up? While they are not what we normally consider to be weeds!

Yes Balcony I feel so glad to have anything come up in my garden apart from the weeds that is :-)