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  1. What a gorgeous flower! I remember yours from last year…you must be very happy to see them growing…and spreading I hope.

    1. They’ve come up all over the place this year…and I can;t remember if I did the seed spreading last fall or if ants etc have done it!

    1. How wonderful to hear!!!!! I must have had a fit of some kind last fall because they sprung up Everywhere in my kitchen garden this year. Or maybe I put some seed heads in the compost pile… What’s interesting, and logical now that I think of it, is that the blooms and plants range in size from teeny tiny – like, a few inches tall with a teeny tiny flower – to that monster in my photo, more than two feet tall with huge leaves, multiple flower stalks coming off one plant, and huge petals. Of course, the teeny ones are at the edge of a dry gravel pathway, the huge one is in a raised bed, much amended with compost and manure, and well watered.

      1. I thin my seedlings to about a foot apart, so I get the big ones. Sadly, this year there are NO honeybees. Okay, well the other day I saw ONE! Rather worrisome, they are usually covered. 🙁

  4. Oh, that’s beautiful! I’ve had no luck with Poppies growing from seed. I have some seedlings in the garden now, but I don’t hold out hope that they will bloom. I think I simply don’t have enough sun. Maybe I need to buy some plants to get them settled in at a more mature state so the critters can’t disturb them and they’ll get enough sun. Anyway, that’s a beautiful Poppy!

    1. Thanks Beth – I had no luck either until I started to spread seed in the fall – they come up quite readily now each spring.

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