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I’m just now starting to see photos of poppies in bloom showing up in gardens in colder climates, but by June the annual poppies are usually finished here.
\nIn my garden, as June continues the mild, overcast weather of May, there are a couple of holdouts.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never planted this variety, which looks like the simple “Lettuce Leaf Poppy.” I note that they showed up in 2013, too, here<\/a>.
\n“Lettuce Leaf Poppy” and “Breadseed Poppy” are the politically correct common names, because we musn’t use the “o” word.
\n(For a great story on opium dens, you can’t beat Conan Doyle’s “The Man With The Twisted Lip.”)
\nMaybe it rode in on a poppy seed bagel. My poppy show comes mainly from Papaver setigerum<\/a>, which I’ve documented profusely on the blog.
\nIt’s much smaller in stature than those towering in the photo above.
\nWith these much bigger poppies, when a new flower is open in the morning, it takes you aback, like someone shouting, “Hey! Check it out! Whaddaya think?!”
\nBut any poppy is OK by me. Poppies are characters loaded with silky personality.
\nAnd there’s all that…um, history they carry, that illicit, pharmaceutical, double life they’ve led since prehistoric times.
\nPoppies and people and pain relief go way, way back.<\/p>\n

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There’s just these two plants left that germinated later than the first flush of poppies that got going in February and March, which is typical for Southern California.
\nDrip hoses and continuing overcast weather are responsible for these remaining two. We’ve loved the gloomy skies of May and June, a kind of weather I find rather addictive.<\/p>\n

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