We have big poppies in our garden. Every year just as they flower the weather is unsettled and the wind and rain knocks them down just as they are looking their best.
This year our big poppies have started to flower later than usual. It has helped them as we have had wind and rain while they were still in bud and they remained quite sturdy. They have just begun to flower and I thought I would photograph them before they have time to get battered.
We are having showers but at the moment but it’s not windy so they have a chance to flower for a while.
Big poppies
Delicate pink
Vibrant red
Contrast
They remind me of flowers made from tissue paper. They have only just started flowering but I know from past experience that this could be as good as they get. They are very vulnerable to the changeable weather at this time year.
It’s best to enjoy these short lived blooms while they are here in the moment.
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your Poppys look really lovely, We are getting gales here
Broken lots of leaves off the beans.
We are lucky not to have the gales….yet! I think it’s worse on the coast. It’s mostly the rain that is battering the poppies. Never had the leaves of the beans broken off though. Hope the beans themselves will be okay. We have gone for dwarf beans this year.
Oh, so very pretty. We had these in our garden at the house I grew up in.
They are lovely but short lived. As some go over the next buds open but they do easily get battered. These photos were yesterday and today after heavy rain there are no flowers but there are lots of buds yet to come so hopefully there will be more.