Tag Archives: poppies
notes on spring
I’ve taken some time off work while the family regroups from assorted medical issues, and since they seem to be more or less on the mend I’m sopping up spare time with plant sales and garden tours. Some nurse, huh? … Continue reading
Posted in clippings, garden travel, garden visit
Tagged ' Yucca pallida, Acanthus 'Morning Candle', Calystegia macrostegia, Eryngium 'Jade Frost', Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor', Island Morning Glory, Leucadendron meridianum 'More Silver', Linum grandiflorum 'Rubrum', Papaver commutatum, poppies
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last of the poppies
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. In my garden, as June continues the mild, overcast weather of May, … Continue reading
Wednesday poppies
Through the dancing poppies stole a breeze most softly lulling to my soul. — John Keats
flea market prep
I had so much fun yesterday organizing for the flea market this Sunday. Tapping poppy seeds into packets, gathering up all the lab beakers into a partitioned wooden box for a safe journey, making bunches of dried poppy seedpods to … Continue reading
Bloom Day April 2013
Spring is moving fast here in Southern California. I’ve already checked out some of the gardens on our host’s site for Bloom Day, Carol at May Dreams Gardens, and saw lots of traditional spring shrubs and bulbs and perennials like … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Albuca maxima, Anigozanthos, Argemone munita, begonia, Centranthus ruber 'Alba', Chionanthus retusus, Digging Dog Nursery, Erodium pelargoniflorum, Euphorbia lambii, flowering tobaccos, Isoplexis canariensis, kniphofia, Nepeta 'Walker's Low', Nicotiana 'Ondra's Brown Mix', Nicotiana langsdorfii, poppies, Prostranthera ovalifolia 'Variegata, Ricinus communis 'New Zealand Purple', Salvia chiapensis, Senecio anteuphorbium, Senecio stellata, Stipa gigantea, Tweedia caerulea, Zaluzianskya capensis
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tuesday clippings 3/26/13
Nothing too thematic, just some odds and ends. To prove I left the plant sale tables briefly and did a lap in the show room at the recent Orange County CSSA show, here’s a Dyckia ‘Brittle Star’ hybrid that won … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, clippings, Occasional Daily Photo, plant crushes, Plant Portraits
Tagged Agave americana var. striata, Dyckia 'Brittle Star', Geranium maderense 'Alba', Isoplexis isabelliana, Melianthus 'Purple Haze', pittosporum, poppies, Prostranthera ovalifolia 'Variegata, tillandsias
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poppies, a minor obsession
Newt is taking time out of her busy day to helpfully point out where the poppies will be blooming this year. Last year’s runnel of poppies was in the crevice along the back porch, but this year they’ve jumped a … Continue reading
Posted in design, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Papaver setigerum, poppies, Poppy of Troy, recycling, Urban Ore
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Occasional Daily Photo/Poppy Pictorial
With a nod to Sports Illustrated, The Poppy Issue, eagerly anticipated by quivering antennae everywhere. Poppies are everything I aspire to be: simultaneously modest and bold, strong but always flexible, taking up only as much ground as necessary and not … Continue reading
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
Elvis Costello does Penny Lane for his mum and the POTUS, filmed June 2, 2010, for PBS. I know I’m betraying both my age and a schmaltz streak a mile wide, but… this is lovely. Well done, Elvis. I was … Continue reading
Poppy Music
I’ve held on to these little poppies as long as possible, and tonight they were given a photographic bon voyage by MB Maher. When it’s twilight, magic hour, the garden becomes an open-air studio. I handled the linen backdrop. A … Continue reading