Beginner Gardening: Cure for the winter blahs- Pretty Pictures 2, 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Oh, there are scads of Poppy seedlings out there right now- I'm so excited! I think I'm even seeing some P.somniferum types out there overwintering? Odd to me, because last year...well, I guess it was year before last (fall of 08) I had lots of somniferum seedlings that all perished with the first hard freeze. Plenty more showed back up in spring to replace them, but that had me thinking they wouldn't behave the same as Shirley Poppies (that produce fall seedlings that overwinter). The '08 batch that froze were still tiny when it happened, so maybe that was why? That was also a drought year, so could be the seeds didn't have enough moisture to germinate till it was too late to develop enough to overwinter.

The California Poppies on the other hand, appear to have all diminished in the cold weather, which I kind of expected.

This combo came out better than planned- I love how the colors are reversed in the Lily and Daylily.