The Yellow Poppy

I finally managed to get a yellow poppy to bloom -- by accident! I have no idea how a poppy managed to germinate successfully in the moss covering the pot in which the long-established miniature rose was growing, when all my other attempts utterly failed to germinate anything at all; I certainly didn't sow it there. I can only assume that a single seed must have been carried into that pot by the wind during my initial attempts back in March, and had been growing there quietly ever since.

I didn't even recognise it as a poppy until a week or so ago; its leaves are wide and three-lobed. (Here's a lovely article on all the different types of poppies, showing the leaves of the Cumbrian/Cambrian -- mine actually came from Cumbria! -- poppy: The yellow poppy of Wales.)

I also have a vibrant display of mesembryanthemums, after all my struggles with them.


( Mesembryanthemums )

( Calendula )

( California poppies )