These are flowers to illustrate fairy tales, and so easy that a child can grow them successfully. In fact, once you plant them, they may just grow on their own happily ever after. They are one of my favorite reseeding annuals. How These Poppies Look The petals of the Shirley poppy are described as tissue paper or tissue silk, and for such a sturdy plant everything about them seems … [Read more...] about Shirley Poppies, Papaver rhoeas
self-seeded flowers
November 11, Notes
It was a gray, dreary day today. Very November in Ohio. I didn't go outside even once. I should do the last mowing for the year, and that will tend to mulch up what is left of the leaves. I came across an article on planting living Christmas trees, it almost made me want to do that again, but really I don't like having to try to keep them alive in house conditions. We were very successful in … [Read more...] about November 11, Notes