Flower of the Day – April 13, 2017 – Poppies

 

Cee’s Flower of the Day – April 13, 2017 – Oriental Poppy

 

A neighbour kindly gave me a few Remembrance Poppy seeds a few years ago. I threw them in a few places round the garden and got some nice bunches of poppies, which i collected the seeds from to replant for the next season. The first crop were basically identical (or i did not notice much variety in any of them).

 

Each year they came up i found more and more varieties. Mostly the flowers have 4 petals some have six and some are double fours. Initially all were bright red, some had a black ‘cross’ in the centre of the cup, some did not. Four years ago i collected one petal from the different varieties i had in bloom that day – the pic of them is at the bottom.

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The original poppy plant (black cross in centre type).

 

A later variant – no idea where this seed came from.

 

A beautiful pure white poppy – with a dandelion seed caught at centre!  No idea where this variety came from but a few red poppies with an outer white lip appeared before this beauty showed up.

 

13 different varieties, types (4 petals, 6 petals; black cross, white cross, no cross and peach with brown cross in centre; red, red and white, and peach coloured leaves and colours picked on the same day. All plants came from just one original type.

 

love.

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