140101 - Cabbage Poppies

A cabbage poppy has bloomed among the sweet peas now flowering beside the garage doors.

Each flower is about as big as your hands cupped together to catch water.

100711 - Terraces

Yesterday, I took a few hundred photographs of the terraces before cleaning up the beds and seeding cosmos for late summer through winter.

1005 - Sweet Peas and Cabbage Poppies

I can never decide which flowers are my favorites. It seems it is usually whatever I am looking at, but I have recently decided once and for all sweet peas are my favorite.

Here you can see I succeeded in growing the sweet peas up the side of the house and nearly into the windows of the front room.

It has been an especially rainy, cool and sunny spring, and I think this is exactly what the flowers needed to thrive.

The cabbage poppies are about five feet tall, their flowers a little smaller than your hands cupped together to catch water.

091231 - Cabbage Poppies

Here's a photograph of cabbage poppies coming up in the front garden near the garage doors.

It is hard to imagine right now that these poppies will reach five feet in height and have flowers the size of your hands cupped together to catch water.

09 Summer - Poppies

Here are several photographs of poppies. The pink ones are Shirley poppies, which are about two-feet tall with flowers the size of your palm. The others are cabbage poppies and grew to three feet or more, with flowers the size of your hands cupped together to catch water.

I think they have done very well this year, because it has been sunny and warm much of this spring and summer.

080511 - Cabbage Poppies and Sweet Peas

Here are two photographs I took today to show how much the sweet peas and cabbage poppies have grown in the front garden next to the garage doors.

As you can see, the sweet peas have now reached past the garage door and are closing in on the windows to the front room above.

Phil and I were delighted to see all three cabbage poppies had bloomed overnight. This plant is a little taller than me, while you can see at least one other is well over six feet tall.

080428 - Gardens

I took several photographs of the gardens today to show how much they've changed in just a month or so.

In the winter, when it rains every day, I find it hard to believe the muddy beds will give way to such beauty.