I always thought I had three colours of oriental poppies, pink, orange and Patties Plum which is a lovely mauve shade and not yet in flower. Then today I found a red one. I had always wanted a red oriental poppy but had never succeeded. A friend gave me some seed so I sowed that and nothing. Then I bought one three years ago and again, nothing. I have moved it three times and it appears to like the latest location because it has started to grow though it won’t get flowers this year. And then today there it was. It is not in a particularly good spot and before it flowered I was going to pull it up, then I saw it had a flower bud so decided to let it flower. Thank goodness I did. So exciting. It must be from the seeds I scattered eons ago. I can’t move it as they do not transplant well so I will have to create some space around it plus give it some feed. Anyway here are three, Patties Plum to follow.
A Garden in the Morvan 