080601 - Red French Flounce Cabbage Poppy

Here's a photograph I took this weekend of the only red French flounce cabbage poppy to show up in the gardens this year.

It is just under five feet tall and very stout, withstanding the blasting wind coming up the hill from the ocean better than anything else in the gardens.

I don't recall any of the French flounce cabbage poppies from last year having several flowers in bloom at once like this one. Each of its flowers is as large as your hands cupped together to catch water.