White Poppy

I wonder if they were planted or just wild ones djen

I think they are planted because they are just in one plot, one large clump next to some pink ones, and these allotments have only been going for two years, rose.

I don't think I've seen them growing wild.

We have lots of areas of wild flowers around the outskirts of our town now - planted by the County Council.
They are lovely.

Sorry, off piste a bit

Perhaps I should take some seedheads off surreptitiously and scatter them along the cycle track so they spread into the wild, rose.
When we had a guest house we used to grow lots of poppies in pots, and give seeds away to people who expressed an interest in them. Most of them were double oriental ones.

I had salmon pink ones, but they get too large and fall over - and take over!

So I have got rid of the large parent plant and kept some little ones for next year.

I grew the 'Danish Flag' ones - perhaps you would like those!

However, they seem to have disappeared, they were lovely.

That's a good idea, roseq. Thanks.
I'll look out for some for my son's partner. I am always looking for something small to put inside crackers at a certain time of the year.

Did you know they were opium poppies from Afghanistan?

perhaps someone pinched them!

www.whitefeatherdiaries.org.uk/diary

Some interesting Quaker stories from WW1.