“Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”
Beverley Nichols, Garden Open Tomorrow
I do!! And I hope you do too.
Thank you for the blog love and while I get back to a blogging rhythm and get round to visiting you all I’ll share poppies from my allotment, a mix of Papaver Orientale and Californian Poppies in the header image. From me to you hanks to you x
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I have missed you Claire. So happy to see the beautiful vibrant poppies. They really are some of the stars of the flower world. Hope you are having a good May.
May is picking up with some lovely sun and warmth Teresa, nothing beats a blue sky day!
I do too! Thanks for sharing your beautiful poppies with us.
🙂 I’m pleased to find so many like minded people!
I actually have. My backyard is a mass of weeds and then one day I SAW the field of golden dandelions and purple grape hyacinths when I got home and laughed. Cause it was so beautiful.
I love your beautiful poppy picture.
Priceless! You see if you let nature do what it does best it looks the best!
Oh are those poppies PRETTY! Don’t you just love the tissue paper thin petals? beautiful header pic!
I was looking at a salmon pink coloured one in the garden today and admiring those paper thin transparent petals. Happy days 🙂
Great photo! Thanks so much! And yes, I am giddy this time of year just basking in green!
I love the word giddy Shenandoah !
So glad to see you getting back in the swing! Fab poppy – we’re getting ready for peonies soon 🙂
I’m never quite sure about peonies……. maybe some great photos will convince me otherwise 🙂
I so love poppies and they are blooming like……..wildflowers….everywhere in southern France right now. They are like a beautiful prayer waving across the fields.
I can see those fields and the sides of roads with that dash of vermillion as you pass by. A beautiful sight Joss. Safe travels my friend x
Poppies do make me smile so I thank you for your photo gift. 🙂
My pleasure Karen
Beautiful and the poppies bought with them memories of the countryside in Spain which was just bursting into poppy loveliness when we left at the end of April. Big hug!
🙂 I have a few in the garden too – I just love them! In fact I think I should own a field just with poppies in them 🙂
So glad to have you back. And your new header is stunning (not that this surprises me)!
Aw bless you Inger!
Missing you but take your time to ell the roses or maybe poppies in this case. Life is so short and there is not enough hours in the day. Take care of yourself
Isn’t it the way – so many ideas and not enough time! Hope life is treating you well in HK my friend x
Hi – nothing gives me more natural laughter and joy than the sheer beauty possible around me . . .
Hello there my friend, lovely to hear from you and I hope life is good. Nothing beats a natural sight or a natural high eh?!
I ‘think’ life is good – too tired to know 🙂 ! Am watching the 21 Day Giro d’Italia [am a cycling fanatic and a huge Cadel Evans fan!!] real time and am half way thru’ [ie right throughout the night 🙂 !] . . . . am in beautiful Emilia Romagna at the moment with sanity somewhere way back there 😀 !!
My partner is a big cycling fan too and hes following the Giro too …. we’ve seen a couple of tge Tours in France – crazy and beautiful!
Lovely to see you’ll be around more Claire, and what a fresh blog post title. That’s hard to beat! Looking forward to what comes next!
Thank you, I think it might be time for some food soon….. hope you have a super day!
Poppies are one of my very favourite flowers. Did you grow yours from seed?
Yes I did, some came from a fellow allotment who in turn got them from Spike Milligans garden 🙂 and the others came from a friends garden – sown in a seed tray and then eventually potted on and eventually potted out. If I remember I bought the Californian poppy seeds, which now reappear every year! Happy days 🙂
I think I need to sow in a tray rather than directly in the ground….
I also think I sowed them in late summer when the seed pods were really dry but I cant quite remember!
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I am occasionally caught exclaiming while out for a walk, or in someone else’s garden, or while walking around my garden, or while driving to town and spotting a roadside flower, etc… yes, I do laugh out loud a lot at this time of year! Love your poppies Claire. 😀
I did the same the other day when we went for a walk along the beach and the crambe were in full flower – little white stars with a yellow middle, so pretty and good to see in it’s natural environment.
I love it when the poppies appear out of the blue in my garden 🙂
Afternoon Tandy, isn’t it magic – the Californian poppies completely die back in winter and then as you say like magic reappear to entertain me !
I am grinning now, you make me appreciate the small things in life 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I’m grinning seeing you pop up on the promenade my friend! Good to hear from you!!
What a beautiful start to my day! Thank you!
My pleasure Melissa, hope you have a super day !
I love poppies and thought I’ve been told they are easy to grow, my efforts have failed.
What a shame, I wonder why they don’t like your garden……. I know I like your garden 🙂
I think you already know that I’m wildly prone to the aforementioned bursts of lunatic laughter. But whenever I visit here, I get the giddy sort that come from pretty things enjoyed, of course, so Thank You!!! 😀
xo
You know Kathryn, you always make me feel like I’m in good company – yours!
It is very nice to have you back in the blogging sphere again, Claire. I’m sure it takes a while to establish some rhythms. I was surprised to see California flowers in the allotment. That is our state flower and they really do grow wild, even in our drought conditions. They must really flourish with moisture. Hope you have a good weekend. I’m a little late to come around myself. 🙂
Thank you my friend. It’s odd how your state flower seems to thrive on my allotment – a place that is well and truly open to the elements, gets battered by the wind and sea-salty air, some winters gets water logged, other winters gets frozen. But survive and thrive it does! Hope you had a great weekend too!!
Lunatic laughter, no. But I do sigh with contentment.
Contentment is good!
YES I DO!
Poppies make me pop!