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turlough ([personal profile] turlough) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2023-06-01 06:14 pm
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a profusion of poppies

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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sunny slope filled with large orange flowers

sunny slope with large orange flowers

large orange flower
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[personal profile] shirebound 2023-06-01 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They're beautiful, and quite different from the poppies I was used to seeing in California. (They're the State Flower.)
turlough: large pale pink poppies under small tree ((summer) seasonal flowers)

[personal profile] turlough 2023-06-01 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
They're so bright and happymaking and so are California poppies. (I love orange!) California poppies are a popular summer plant in gardens here but it's never become an escapee like the Oriental poppies.
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