I’m so happy with the flowers this year I couldn’t resist sharing a few more happy snaps!
Plus, the second addition to my new ‘Herbal Explorations’ pages, Spiderwort.
This grows all around us for the better part of the year. I knew the name, but didn’t realize it was edible until recently. I was so pleased to learn that, considering how plentiful it is around here, that I had to dedicate a ‘weed’ page to Spiderwort.
In the garden the poppies have been so gorgeous, I just can’t get enough of them. They’ve been so prolific I feared they would completely crowd-out the nigella, which has such a tasty seed, but blooms a bit later. Luckily, I found a little patch still making room for itself.
The poppies contrasted with the calendula are simply gorgeous, the pictures don’t do them justice!
Thanks for stopping by!
Do you have a favorite flower?
Kensho Homestead 
Sunflower is my favorite. Waiting for it to grow more this year.
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Love those too, they are the flower version of a big smiley face!
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It would seem the Monarch Butterflies like the flowers as well.
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Fave flower…chrysanthemums.
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Interesting choice, a bit of an odd flower I think, and you said before you have an eye for odd!
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That, I do…
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I have Spiderwort all over one side of my yard.
Do Poppies have to be re-seeded every year or are they perennial?
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Here they are reseeding themselves, but I’m not sure if that’s the case in colder climates. We‘ve had a couple of very mild winters in a row and the year it snowed so bad I wasn’t growing them yet.
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Hmmm…
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Oh, I love those poppies! Those are the same as what I remember my mother growing, when I was a child!
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Do you know, did they reseed themselves in your northern clime, or did she have to sow seed every year?
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I think a bit of both. I know we kept a LOT of seeds from them, but we also ate most of them. 😄 At some point, though, she must have pulled them up completely before they could reseed themselves.
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