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Friday, June 12, 2009

In My Garden











Purple poppies, pink paeonaes and red hot pokers. the tropical garden did not survive the winter, but in its place I have zillions of purple poppies. Great big purple poppies. last year, Brystan and Cannyn sprinkled some old seeds I had in the garage. We had a few pretty poppies. When the seedheads opened, my little garden friends and I walked around spreading the seeds. This year the garden is over run with poppies. I even thinned them when they first came up. Cannyn is on tip-toes. he is not quite that tall. But I am 5'2" tall. with the bed raised one foot that means the poppies are at least 4' tall.

I forgot to stake my paeonaes this year, so they are flopping everywhere. Jon came out while I was taking these pictures, and he propped a few up in the magnolia tree so they would photograph better. He is such a linear thinker. I would have just crawled under the flopping plant and took a picture that way.

Nurse Charlotte gave me the red hot poker for the tropical garden last year. It has tripled in size this year. I think she may be having second thoughts now. So am I, they really belong in a tropical garden. Maybe I will try that again.

3 comments:

  1. Love your peonies and purple poppies!

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  2. Love the poppies! And those pokers are amazing. Its so odd gardening in the midwest after growing up on the west coast and having the family gardens there.

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  3. Save me some poppy seeds. Have I given you any of my orange ones?

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