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6/6/2018

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..in the wrong place, floppy, messy, hard to move, every year I think I should get rid of them but..
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..every year I let them stay!

If I had a big enough garden I would have a poppy border and grow 'Cedric Morris' and 'Patty's Plum' and from seed  'Pizzicato' from which I would select my favourites (This is how I came by the ones above.)  I would interplant them with irises and agapanthus for a succession of wonderful colour. I could also have the Welsh poppies, the Iceland poppies, the Californian poppies, opium poppies, Shirley poppies, Angel;s Choir, Dark Plum...

Just as well I have not got a bigger garden. I'd be exhausted.

What would you grow if you had a bigger garden - or if you had a garden. I didn't have a garden where I grew up but In my first flat I had two window boxes.


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Julia
6/6/2018 03:22:30 pm

Freda, my friend quotes her father, who was a well-respected landscape architect in the USA: any plant in the wrong spot is a weed...however...your poppies are simply too breath-taking for words..no wonder you keep them..they are a favorite of mine too, esp the opium poppy...i would grow more irises and more peonies...:-)

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:44:27 pm

Opium poppies are fabulous, and so are the seed heads. I have never grown peonies myself.

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Mary B
6/6/2018 03:27:00 pm

Wonderful photographs, beautiful poppies ! We moved to a bigger garden some years ago but as I get older I'd be happy to grow more time and more energy to care for it ! Oh and yes lots more poppies !

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:45:21 pm

I keep meaning to grow less but can't stop having more ideas!

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Linda
7/6/2018 01:26:28 am

Those poppies are glorious - I'd have to keep them as well. In my ideal world I would have a walled garden, red brick, with a lean-to greenhouse on one wall. Some of it would be laid as a veg garden, but I also love roses. As I see all this on quite a large scale, I'd need a gardener as well please!

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:46:59 pm

I think a walled garden is every gardener's dream (with the full coplement of garden boy, undergardeners and head gardener of course!)

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cathy
7/6/2018 03:35:07 am

let's see...I'd have more lilies of the valley, daffodils, batchelor buttons (you call them cornflowers, I think) irises, violets, tulips...more daffodils. more of just anything but red roses....yellow, pink, peach roses are fine, just not red. no clue why that is.

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:48:00 pm

I can see it all in my mind's eye. Glorious!

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cath
7/6/2018 08:04:57 am

Poppies. My favourite wild flower. Your's are gorgeous.
At least once each spring we visit a poppy exhibition. Last week it was
a roundabout with a wave of poppies and some cornflowers along the edges (round edges? ah, you will know what I mean). Pity we couldn't stop..

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:49:23 pm

Perfect with cornflowers. Did you drive round and round the roundabout to get a good look?

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Lucille link
7/6/2018 12:01:24 pm

This year a large number of pinkish brown poppies have flowered and gone over very messily. I think the blowsy white irises must come out too. They collapse and drop soggy brown petals on the newly opening flower below.
I would love enough Lily of the Valley to pick in big bunches and wrap in their leaves to hand over a fence to a little girl just as the Misses Covingtons did when I was a child.

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:52:19 pm

Time to be ruthless (though I say this every year). They don't die prettily though sometimes the seed pods are rather good. Lots of lily of the valley might be do-able - how nice a memory of the Misses Covington.

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Lotta
7/6/2018 12:59:14 pm

They are gorgeous, I'd definitely keep those! If I had a much bigger garden I would probably feel overwhelmed so I'd plant a low-maintenance food forest... with plenty of colour in between!

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Freda
7/6/2018 01:53:54 pm

A food forest sounds wonderful but I wonder if there is such a thing as a low maintenance one...

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Lotta
7/6/2018 02:01:34 pm

Yes! They're designed specifically to be low maintenance and self-sustaining... If you google food forests there's loads of info...




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