Poppies...finally

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:13 pm

Great time of year when the Oriental Poppies finally open.

What a masterpiece of mother nature:
If only the camera could do it justice.

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:17 pm

Toad lickers and now this!

Qa-Quite bbbeautiful evvven to us st-ra-ra-ra-raight peo-pulls

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:18 pm

Ah, I see you've already had some

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:35 pm

They are bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeaaaaaauuuuttttttiiiiifffffffffuuuuuuuuulllllllllllll

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:03 am

Popppppppiiiiieeeees will make them sleep!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:24 pm

Ha ha, you turkeys...

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:52 pm

Seriously nice photos, Barb

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:38 pm

Thanks folks.
Not many flowers around here so it's quite a diversion when something sends up a shock of color.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:24 pm

When will you get wildflowers there?
My pastures are full of wild Rudbeckia and Coreopsis right now.
Wife plans to spray with 2,4-D soon. I may have to take a shovel out there and rescue some.
--Erik

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:08 am

Those flowers are spectacular Barb, the detail is amazing. How long do the flowers last for?

Bill

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:57 pm

Bill, poppies last for almost a week BUT as soon as they open we get a light rain overnight (every year it seems) that mars the delicate petals.
And damn if it didn't happen again this year.

Erik, suddenly wildflowers are everywhere in the fields but it is later this year since May was so cold and rainy.
The wild lupines are just starting.
Didn't have my camera with me when I went to an appointment this morning.

And the much-hated purple loosestrife (one of the most beautiful plants I've ever seen) is coming up in ditches.
For those who don't know why it's hated, loosestrife invades low/wetlands, destroying them by outperforming all other native (and beneficial) wetland plants.
One day the nurseries will have to stop SELLING it!

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:14 pm

Lupines are pretty. Take your camera long some day.
Purple loosestrife is sold around here occasionally. I don't see it growing wild (like I sometimes see Kudzo doing) but may be a matter of time. Or climate. --Erik