Green Thumb Sunday
You are looking at one of my biggest disappointments this year. It's a poppy. It was supposed to look like the ones in the Old Masters paintings. And it did. Sort of. As a flower, it was very attractive. As a plant, it was just plain ugly. The flowers were so heavy that the stems couldn't support them and drooped. So, instead of looking like this:
(attractive picture in the catalog), it looked like this:
Click on the picture to enlarge it and experience the horror. I thoroughly deadheaded so that this monstrosity would never, ever reappear.Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
posted by OldRoses @ 4:35 PM
5 Comments:
How disappointing, because yes -- the flowers themselves are really lovely! I don't think I've ever seen a poppy quite like that.
Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
I've never seen anything like it, neither of them. How disappointing yes. One can wonder what went wrong here.
Poppies are just ugly plants. They need to grow up through something which hides their ankles. And their shins. And their knees. And ...
Don't you know that the plants you try to get rid of, are invariably the ones that keep coming back!
My peony poppies always have stems that curve around like that. I'm with Xris.
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