This was the first Oriental hybrid poppy to bloom in the summer, 2007. We had planted four others earlier that spring, but all apparently died.
Yesterday, while watering and weeding the gardens, I noticed four plants that looked neither like weeds nor like any of the varieties of annual poppies Phil and I have been seeding throughout the winter.
I was happy to realize they were the four poppies long thought dead.
I read in a flower catalog that Oriental hybrid poppies have twice the number of flower petals as their natural cousins.
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