Poppy

We went to Kentucky for Memorial Day, which was lovely. So many things were flowering that was just starting to bud in Vermont. It was like a preview of the spring that hadn't gotten to us northerners. I was also a little sad, because I thought that we would miss the explosion of spring in our garden. Luckily, we got back to find the very very beginning.

I do love poppies: they are such fascinating and fragile flowers. The color is fantastic. They are architecturally interesting. If only they lasted longer. I wouldn't mind having poppies all summer long. Our are doing better this year, though. After the first year when I ripped a number of them out of the ground thinking they were weeds...