39/366: Drizzled Feather
41/366: Queen Anne's Lace Bokeh Pearls (+2 in note…
42/366: Prayer Stones
43/366: Deep Pink Dogwood
44/366: Elderly Mushroom
46/366: Golden Echinacea (+5 more in notes)
47/366: Pacific Gopher Snake Hatchling (+4 more in…
50/366: Ripening White Oak Acorn (+1 in a note)
52/366: Frosty Screw
53/366: Elegant Erythronium (+5 more in notes)
54/366: Curious Mushroom with Something to Say
51/366: Creamy California Poppy
58/366: Yummy Yellow Daffodils (+1 in a note)
59/366: Wasp on Fallen Morning Glory Flower
60/366: Sugar-Frosted Mushroom
61/366: The Magic of an Opening Poppy
62/366: Wood Whorls
63/366: Glowing Green Fruticose Lichen
64/366: Love in a Mist
66/366: Magnificent Lavender Bearded Iris Bud
70/366: Queen Anne's Lace Bud
72/366: Lovely Little Mushroom
76/366: Tiny Sweat Bee on Thistle
77/366: Twinkling Weeds
81/366: Moss Covered with Droplets
84/366: Wild Grass Close-Up
85/366: Poppy with Droplets (+1 in a note)
87/366: Bright and Cheery Monkeyflower
89/366: Elegance (+1 inset)
90/366: Fledgling Maple Bat
91/366: Pink Coneflower in a Sea of Flower Bokeh
92/366: Pearly Classic
97/366: Dried Leaf
101/366: Coral Bells Blossom
104/366: Puff-Topped Creamy Echinacea
107/366: Lovely Frond
108/366: Purple Hollyhock
110/366: Dazzling Daffodil Display
111/366: Sapling Pine Growing in Oak Tree
112/366: Aster Petal Edges
113/366: Amazing Pink and Orange Echinacea (+1 in…
114/366: Manzanita Buds (+3 in notes)
118/366: Classic 1964 Chevy Impala Emblem
119/366: Touch Me!
120/366: Yellow-Tinge Larkspur Bud (+1 in a note)
122/366: Lovely African Daisies (+1 in a note)
123/366: Just the Gills (+1 in a note)
124/366: Beauty Lurks Inbetween the Shadows
126/366: Morning Glory Vine
127/366: Mesmerized by a Morning Glory
128/366: Golden Columbine
130/366: Sticky Cinquefoil Wildflower--No Petals,…
133/366: Details of a Dandilion Seed Head
135/366: Dogwood Blossoms
136/366: Old Classic in Red
137/366: Mushroom Cap Tearing Away
138/366: Dreamy Echinacea
141/366: Sunny Dandilions
142/366: Frost on Rusted Barbed Wire
145/366: Purple Goatsbeard (+1 image and a link in…
146/366: Green Zebra Tomato Flower (+4 images in n…
148/366: California Poppy with Hat
149/366: Hoverfly on Tarweed
37/366: Bumble Bee in Flight
36/366: Cafe UFOs
35/366: Orange Beads (+1 in a note)
32/366: Dreamy Mushroom
31/366: California Poppy with Droplet
29/366: Moss on a Branch
30/366: Glowing Manzanita Leaf
28/366: Glowing Campion Pod
26/366: Golden Bearded Iris
24/366: Emerging Poppy
23/366: Golden Leaf on Pond
22/366: Mexican Hat Blossom
21/366: Damselfly with Lunch
20/366: Frosted Barbed Wire
19/366: Jagged Edges
18/366: Hood Ornament
17/366: Praying Mantis: "Take me to your leader!"
16/366: Unfurling Fern
15/366: Bumble Bee in Flight
14/366: Lovely Poppies
13/366: Lichen in the Snow, Adorned with Droplets
12/366: Autumn Gold
11/366: Tiny Buds in Vernal Pool
10/366: Seedhead From Above
8/366: African Daisies
7/366: A Pair of Sporophytes in the Snow
4/366: Dreamy Droplet
1/366: Curious Mushroom
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38/366: Magical Poppy Scene
My front garden was where I first tried to grow poppies. I had a 5-year old packet of red poppies and thought, "These will NEVER sprout, but certainly not if I don't plant them!" So I walked outside and went to my small flower bed and promptly flung them all over the bed without care! I hoped that maybe a few would sprout.
I was not prepared for what happened in the coming months. Instead of just a few, I think there must have been over 100 that sprouted and grew into a veritable WALL of red poppies!! Every morning I would come out and my jaw would drop at the incredible sight before me as new poppies opened! It was incredible. I fell madly in love with these flowers and watered them every day through our hot and unforgiving summer, and all the way until the first frost of winter killed the last of them. What a show! What a gift of beauty that continued month after month.
If that weren't enough, the next spring, without any input by me, these flowers had reseeded themselves and put on ANOTHER show!! I added a mixture of poppies that year and soon the red ones were joined by a rainbow of lovely blossoms of different types of poppies. Even without care, they put on another show last year. Not a speck of water from me and still, these prolific flowers greeted me with another glorious springtime show! They didn't last as long, but still, I was happy to see them blooming until June!
This picture is from May 2014, the year I had my raised bed garden, and here in my front garden I had irises and hyacinths and different kinds of allium (onion ), and others too. Seeing the poppies as the sun peeked over the hillside was a sight I relished, and I would be there with my camera to see the first rays of warm light shine through the crepe-like petals of these flowers I so adore.
I was not prepared for what happened in the coming months. Instead of just a few, I think there must have been over 100 that sprouted and grew into a veritable WALL of red poppies!! Every morning I would come out and my jaw would drop at the incredible sight before me as new poppies opened! It was incredible. I fell madly in love with these flowers and watered them every day through our hot and unforgiving summer, and all the way until the first frost of winter killed the last of them. What a show! What a gift of beauty that continued month after month.
If that weren't enough, the next spring, without any input by me, these flowers had reseeded themselves and put on ANOTHER show!! I added a mixture of poppies that year and soon the red ones were joined by a rainbow of lovely blossoms of different types of poppies. Even without care, they put on another show last year. Not a speck of water from me and still, these prolific flowers greeted me with another glorious springtime show! They didn't last as long, but still, I was happy to see them blooming until June!
This picture is from May 2014, the year I had my raised bed garden, and here in my front garden I had irises and hyacinths and different kinds of allium (onion ), and others too. Seeing the poppies as the sun peeked over the hillside was a sight I relished, and I would be there with my camera to see the first rays of warm light shine through the crepe-like petals of these flowers I so adore.
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