These photographs are for my friend in Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love is still in the clutches of Old Man Winter.I took these photographs today in our front yard. You can see the winter sweet peas are not only working their way up their trellis, but they've begun growing flower shoots.
Sweet peas are one of my favorite flowers, so I'm looking forward to these going into bloom.
Phil calls the poppies in front of the sweet peas by their common name, "cabbage poppies." They are sold under names like "breadbox poppies" or "Turkish poppies." They grow to five feet or so and produce flowers the size of your hands cupped together to catch water. And, yes, they smell unmistakably like cabbage.
The yellow flowers in the next bed are coreopsis and thrive well in San Francisco. Between them and the poppies you can see a foxglove.
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