0706 - Pink and White Poppy

Here's a photograph of a pink-and-white poppy that bloomed in June, 2007.

The flower was as large as your hands cupped together to catch water, and the stock stood over five feet. Each cabbage poppy in the front yard produced a dozen or so flowers.

That fall, I let several flowers go to seed, then carefully collected and dried the pods. In early winter, I sprinkled hundreds of seeds in the garden bed behind and above the lemon tree.

I was amazed when poppies came up as thick as a lawn, and I was equally amazed when the birds ate every one of them in just a few days.