a profusion of poppies

[turlough]

Not far from where I live there's a dry, sunny slope and right now it's completely filled with bright orange Oriental Poppies (Papaver orientale). It's an old garden flower here in southern Sweden and occasionally it seems to thrive in the wild too.

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Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Such a striking sight! A friend just sent me some photos of her garden this week, also with poppies as well as some in a pretty flower arrangements.

[turlough]

I love them and try to walk past them as often as possible during their short flowering.