Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleeeeep…

The wicked witch knew what she was talking about. Poppies are known in many cultures to symbolize sleep or death (or can make you high I guess, I’m sure you’ve heard of opium, right?). It might be because these pretty flowers are poisonous. However, I have lots of herbs and veggies to keep our household nourished, so I don’t plan on consuming our pretty poppies in our front yard any time soon. I like to have them to look at, and the deer don’t eat them.

It seems like some varieties are annuals, some biennials, and some perennials, but since we’ve been in the house 3 years now, and they have come up each year, it seems our pretty pink ones are perennials. I really love these flowers, even though their darker counterparts are associated with death, I think they look really fun and summery. They started to bloom a few weeks ago, and will continue to bloom well into the summer. If there isn’t a regular rain (read: you are in a drought), you need to water them every once & awhile, but overall these have been really low maintenance.

June 16, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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