tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post7710050007608875206..comments2024-03-28T08:23:22.133-04:00Comments on Beyond the Fields We Know: May is scarlet, purple and green...kerrdelunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779897207670867347noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-65413546087399648902012-05-30T10:20:46.715-04:002012-05-30T10:20:46.715-04:00I have tried many, many times over the years (and ...I have tried many, many times over the years (and in different places in different countries) to 'cultivate' poppies, I have 'unearthed' them and replanted, I've collected seeds and bought plants.... they do what they want and therefore I now look at them as an unexpected, unearned but for this all the more attractive and extraordinary gift from nature! Your photos show the luminosity of those flowers which mustn't be touched or else they fold up quite rapidly. I sometimes am very lucky to find cultivated giant poppies in all colours in flower shops; I can never pass them by and then enjoy their play of most delicate textures and colours for as long as they last.... Wonderful stuff!<br />I had - this just btw - immensly long poppies, wild tulips and ranuncula in my wedding flowers arrangements (church, my bunch, table deco at dinner....) and EVERY time I can feast my eyes on those flowers I think with gratitude to the fleurist who did 'my' flowers then - so many years ago!<br />Thank you once again for this colourful post - and the 'Gundelrebe' the pretty blue weed is blooming wildly in my garden's grass too - I let it live; it's so lovely with the daisies and the dandelions... :)Kikihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/vol-au-vent/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-52176077462331640482012-05-29T14:50:45.801-04:002012-05-29T14:50:45.801-04:00There's something about poppies, the colours s...There's something about poppies, the colours so vibrant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-62491095784749581142012-05-29T07:33:41.490-04:002012-05-29T07:33:41.490-04:00Image is beautiful.
For the first time I had some ...Image is beautiful.<br />For the first time I had some poppies bloom from my scattered seeds.<br />Double poppies and hope they spread.One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12548226150115102345noreply@blogger.com