Poppy

Nice to have gifts from nature :o)

Beautiful surprise Gee :o)

A poppy for your Poppy .... :))))

:) They are just as bright as each other, Holly.
Thanks, Neellan and Hywel :)

:))))))

Lovely colour Gee. Such a shame the delicate flowers last such a short time. There is one down the street growing at the bottom of a front garden wall. It is a vibrant red. I have pale mauve ones in the border, self seeded. So I'm going to get a seed case off the red one as I pass by soon.

It is a shame they don't last longer - this one has faded and dropped its petals already. I gathered lots of seed pods and scattered them around the garden several years ago but nothing happened until last year. Hope you manage to collect your seedpod before someone else does :)

I got 2 seed pods off it. A saw 2 had already gone, I would have like to have left it longer. I hope they will harden off and give up their seeds Gee.

I sometimes leave a seed head in a shallow dish in the greenhouse - they seem to dry off OK in there :) Fingers crossed yours are successful.