Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER!!! Yay it's finally here!!!, 1 by typwc

typwc wrote:
Muddy, Here's my BES 'Indian Summer'. I don't know if this is a new plant or a plant that survived last year?

OH EM GEE. Look at this peony-flowered poppy! I have been waiting forever for this thing to bloom and it finally has. This is my first time growing these things and I've made a lot of mistakes along the way.
1. Shouldn't have sown seeds here in the first place, these guys are 3 feet tall and hideously weedy looking before they set buds!
2. Shouldn't have mistaken them for weeds. I ripped out half of them. Oops!
3. Shouldn't have made plans to do anything except stare at these plants. I'm waaay too busy to give these flowers the adoration they deserve. I only got to see them for a few minutes yesterday and actually went in to work late this morning just so I could look at these flowers.