Last year I set out a HOS of wildflower seedlings (from Trudi's seeds). They did ok, but then vanished pretty quickly. This year in the (almost?) same place I have this luscious green stuff and I have no clue as to what it could be and therefore whether I should pull it out or wait.
Is the picture good enough or should I take another closer one? Any ideas?
Achillea maybe?
Karen
Not sure at all, but I'm guessing poppies of some kind. I wouldn't pull it up yet.
I'm with claypa. They look a bit like some of my poppies. I guess...all we are saying, is give p's a chance:-))
Bev
LOL LOL give p's a chance, although they don't look like peas to me! xx, C
Thanks all. I think poppies is a good guess, because there were poppies in that wildflower seed mix that I got from Trudi. They are certainly very healthy looking and not like weeds - even though I have found some very pretty weeds too.
So, I will definitely keep these plants, I think there are three or four. It would have been a shame to pull them up if they have this great potential in them!!
Thanks agian.
I think it's Oriental Poppy which is a perennial one. Very healthy looking, too.
I agree with the ladies above--looks a lot like my Oriental Poppy foliage. You'll have to let us know how it looks when it blooms!
Here is my first poppy bloom this year. They do great on the south and west sides of my house, and return more vigorously each year.
WOW!! A bloom already?? Holy cow!!! Congratulations!!
Only one of my perennial poppies survived last summer's heat and drought. It's in bloom now
Karen
I think it is a poppy, too. I don't know what these things are called, but they are like hairy, green capsules, and there are plenty of them. I'll post a picture when they open.
Oooh, lucky Clementine. I have some things that look like weeds near where we're trying to get perennial poppies started, so I never weed in that area just in case they're the poppies. Last year we had 2 or 3, maybe this year 12 or 13? or 3 or 4? Fingers crossed. On the other hand, they could be weeds. . . !
"Hairy green capsules" ROFL Sounds like something that you drop in water to grow sea monkeys or something. Pretty good description of a poppy bud, though. Do they look anything like the "hairy capsules" in my picture above?
Booker, yes that's what they look like, I guess I am in luck - unexpected poppies. Carrie, I know what you are saying about them possibly being weeds or maybe not or some of them. That's why I had to post my question, because I have never grown poppies, and I just did not recognize what I had as weeds. (I know lots of weeds, LOL)
LOL I grew up in a small rural town, walking beans. My college roommate was a big city girl from the Chicago area. I convinced her to work at a summer camp with me, and not only taught her to tell the difference between corn and beans (yes, she really could not tell) and how to call hogs, but also amazed her by naming all the weeds in the ditches and fields. She thought I was making them up: smart weed, pig weed, button weed, milkweed, etc. I still cannot walk near a button weed without wanting to rip the thing up by the roots!
Carrie, do the leaves look hairy? Don't know about other poppies, but my Orientals are very hairy (though soft, not prickly like nettles or thistles) all over the leaves, stems, and yes, buds (hairy green capsules. Still chuckling over that one.)
They are sort of not near where I can get to with the wheelchair. I'll have to ask one of my kids. I pray tomorrow is a nice day, because my Mother's Day gift is usually help in the garden! I put them somewhere where they wouldn't be in the way while they were coming up all weedy looking, and where other stuff would hide them once they're done, but the result is I can't get there. If they were in front of me in a pot, I could tell, lol. That's why I like containers!! - Carrie
I have WS Breadseed poppies with big buds on them already.
Well, you were right - here is my poppy.
What a lovely color! I need some of those to tone down my bright oranges. They are almost day-glo bright now that the whole swath of them is blooming. I'm so glad you asked and didn't weed it out!
Cheers, Clementine:-) Very pretty!
Clementine, it looks like you're going to have a whole lot more - I see more pods!
Today I have TWO!! Who knows about tomorrow though. I hope the deer don't eat them. They have already gotten the coneflowers and the veronicas. But they are so beautiful (the deer, I mean, LOL)
