5.25.2011

The Wind and the Poppies

My garden is finally beginning to look like a garden. Despite the wind, the shocks of freezing mornings and dry hot afternoons, my poppies are continuing to bloom. I came home from the dog park to find my Princess Victoria Louise poppies blowing in the wind. 



I don't know what ineffable quality about poppies that I find so alluring. When I was in college in New Orleans I read a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle. It might have been O'Keeffe's iconic images of the flowers that drew me out here and romanticized the Southwest. The images continue to resonate with me to this day. I'm attracted to poppies the way other gardeners are obsessed with roses or orchids or succulents. 







7 comments:

  1. Wow, I think you identified why I love poppies so. I am an O'Keeffe fan myself and I never made the connection from canvas to garden and my view of the artist. There is something very magical in the art and the bloom.

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  2. Duh, forgot to say how beautiful your images are. I was just so excited about what you said.

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  3. Poppies are so pretty, and you've captured them beautifully!

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  4. @GWGT - I agree; both are heart warming and magical.

    @Aerie-el, thank you. I adore poppies.

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  5. What is that pillow of purple loveliness behind her? Penstemon? What a great companion!

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    1. It's Walker's Low catmint (nepeta). It doesn't reseed like crazy and doesn't need much water.

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    2. Ooooh, thanks for the tip. I've been scared away by an experience with a big mess of invasive catmint. Now I know there's a catmint with manners that I could welcome into my garden.

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