Poppies everywhere

Poppies everywhere

Last year in the Spring, we had a mystery plant appear. At first we thought it might be a cabbage or just a large weed,oh excuse me, a natural exotic plant of this area!  After a lot of research including talking to the new BRIT, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, we found out it was a poppy. I was delighted as the pretty pink flowers looked so good in the yard. Found it even better when we went to lovely Clark garden in our area and found they were growing them in huge beds.

Poppy 20 12

Well I dutifully collected the seeds as they formed and in the Autumn went around sprinkling the seeds all over the garden, hoping that at least a few would come up again.

Poppy 2013

Certainly some have come up. In fact lots have come up. They are all over the place but they are changed. This year's poppies are redder and have a black splodge on the petals. They are also not so tall but then our rain has been a lot less this year.
They are so pretty and indeed looks like I have more flowers to paint now. Who can resist painting poppies?