By Owdboggy
West Midlands,
United Kingdom 
Anyone put a name to these?
First is a Poppy, and unusual that it prefers a semi shaded position. save me looking through the book.
Second was growing on the foreshore at Parkgate on the Wirral.
18 Jun, 2010
Answers
Yellow thrift?
18 Jun, 2010
2nd one looks like a Helichrysum to me, presumably one that grows wild - the closest cultivated one would be H. bellidiodes, no idea what the one in the pic might be called though.
As for the poppy, not too sure - P. atlanticum?
18 Jun, 2010
Not atlanticum, we have that and it is much brighter orange, as is the semi double form of it too.
Would have to be a garden escape to be growing on The Wirral.
18 Jun, 2010
As far as I can ascertain the Poppy is P.pilosum subsp.spicatum., but not abso pos.
18 Jun, 2010
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The second one looks like some form of thrift - armeria maritima
18 Jun, 2010