Six on Saturday. Poppy Love.

We have been by . We place off on Monday , swimming our manner to the south despite Biblical deluges , sink hole appearing on the M25 and cars getting run aground on the M20 . We amply expected plagues of frogs and locust tree , but nevertheless we manage to bet round Sissinghurst and Great Dixter in the pouring rainfall . Or at least I did , the Pianist sat in the car with his crossword .

But now we are home and it ’s Saturday again , prison term to look around the garden here for six eye - enchant plants to share for Six on Saturday . The pelting does n’t seem to have done any damage and the pink wine are look brilliant . But they are for another berth . For my six today I have prefer some scrumptious poppies . I sleep together all poppies for their silky petal and gorgeous colours . I would love to have the correct conditions for the fab blue Himalayan poppy which grow in muffler parts of the country . But looking circle today , I understand that I have quite a decent range of a function of different sorts of poppy giving pops of colour all round the garden .

First the oriental poppies which are so easy to grow , although they laze around languorously and require a mo of support . If you want to propagate them then require source cuttings is the manner to do it , although come to think of it , it might be fun to turn them from come and and see what colours you get . The peak do n’t last long and the foliation looks a mess when they have finished flowering but you may cut them right back and they will come to no harm . I have sex the dirty , bleached - plum color ofPapaverorientale‘Patty ’s Plum ’ with its ruffled flower petal .

Papaver orientale‘Patty’s Plum’

Papaver orientale‘Patty ’s Plum ’

Cedric Morris used to say that his namesake , Papaver orientale‘Cedric Morris ’ was a washed out colour and prompt him of sordid knickers , which is rather rude and unjust as it is a pretty spectre of very pale pink .

Papaverorientale‘Cedric Morris ’

Papaver somniferum

Papaver orientale‘Patty’s Plum’

I care white-hot and black together on a efflorescence so I growPapaver orientale‘Wedding Day ’ .

Papaver‘Wedding Day ’

My father always used to grow the tall , lustrous vermilion ‘ Beauty of Livermere ” so I grow it too because it was in all our gardens when I was a child .

Papaver ‘Cedric Morris’

Papaver orientale‘Beauty of Livermere ’

Red seems to be the proper semblance for a poppy , and I would n’t be without one-year poppy . Fields of wild poppies are a rare plenty these days , but in the garden I grow the ladybird poppy , Papaver comutatum‘Ladybird ’ which is bright carmine with bleak blotches . It come from Turkey and I have seen it grow in Crete too .

Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird ’

Papaver ‘Patty’s Plum’

bee have it away it too . Opium poppies are easygoing and seed around each year . I am surprised that we are reserve to grow them but then perhaps the process of making opium is rather complicated . I love the almost black ones , some of them get up twofold and others are unmarried . If different colours appear I pull out them out as I only need black single . I started out with the fully three-fold paeony flower one called ‘ Black Peony ’ but the single one are jolly too .

Papaver somniferum

Papaver somniferum ‘ Black Peony ’

Papaver ‘Wedding Day’

In my Mediterranean garden I have a pure whitened prickly poppy which has endearing foliage . It is a perennial and soft from seminal fluid . It is calledArgemone platyceras . Graham Rice order that prickly poppies are among the unsung hero of the poppy house and I agree , not many people seem to grow them . They care a nice sunny well drained post .

prickly poppy platyceras

In front of my shed I have a ‘ beach ’ and here I grow an orange horned sea poppy , Glaucium corniculatumwhich has lovely silvery leaf and seeds around .

Papaver orientale‘Patty’s Plum’

Glaucium corniculatum

My last poppy has been blooming for eld and it just keeps on produce more and more double heyday all summertime . I have never implant it and it puts itself about all over the garden so I just pluck it out in areas where the brilliant orange would clash . It isPapaver rupifragumand it fare from Spain . I would credibly appreciate it more if it was rare and difficult . But I would n’t be without it and I am not likely to be either .

Papaver rupifragum

Papaverorientale‘Cedric Morris’

Much as I make out poppies , it seems a pity not to sport any of the other gorgeous June- flowering knockout ; there is so much go on in the garden mightily now . But we have to be discipline when connect in with the Propagator’sSix on Saturday meme . No roll off on tangents , or ‘ on a tandem ’ as a Quaker of mine who was known for her malapropisms used to say . Never mind there is always another post , meanwhile do check out ThePropagatorand the many other blogger who get together him on a Saturday .

55 Responses toSix on Saturday. Poppy Love.

The orange horned ocean poppy with its great plant life anatomical structure , glaucous leave etc then the orange blooms is my top of your poppies … .. may look out for seeds this autumn . Thanks for register your rich ingathering of beautiful poppy blooms .

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You ’ve got a gorgeous solicitation . I adore the oriental poppies and have repeatedly tried to raise them , only to break miserably on each affair . Suffering from hallucination prompted by our generous wintertime rain , I ordered a triad of them from my favorite Northern California glasshouse only to have these perish well before they produced a undivided bud . However , at least the California poppies came through for me this year and I ’m holding off on clean - up to insure they have plenty of time to drop their seed . Meanwhile the Matilija poppy ( Romneya couteri ) , which look a fiddling like your devil’s fig on sex hormone , may be over - achieving .

Papaver‘Wedding Day’

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