I've added some photos of some of the flowers out in my borders right now. Just click here.
The orange poppy is a bit of a mystery and a lot of an annoyance. I have only planted pink and white poppies in the garden - not always successfully I might add; yet I now have three groups of bright orange poppies. All the colours in my back garden are cool - the hot ones being in the front garden, so I really don't want three lots of in-your-face poppies nestled among the pastel shades.
One of the groups has been with me from the beginning of this garden - five years plus and each summer after it has flowered I try to dig it up, but next year back it comes. Being a gardener I can't bear to poison them or rip them out when they flower so I grin and bear it until they have finished. I am determined this year that when they've done their thing I will get every last bit of root out and pass them on to someone who can use them.
I am curious though as to whether they are absolute rogues from somewhere or other? or wrongly labelled ones I've bought and planted (this is the answer I think is the right one)? or do pale poppies eventually revert to the simple orange?
Answers please?
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