Botanical Buzz | Ron Watson.

By Ron Watson
November 18 2017 - 6:00am
Rough Poppy: They are annuals which is not significant because the Iceland Poppy is perennial, but gardeners treat them as annuals, (Papaver hybridum). Related of course to the Oriental Poppy and Opium Poppy.
Rough Poppy: They are annuals which is not significant because the Iceland Poppy is perennial, but gardeners treat them as annuals, (Papaver hybridum). Related of course to the Oriental Poppy and Opium Poppy.

First glance at a group of untamed wild flowers can be arresting. The excess alone is enough to render us sibilant, hissing short intakes of breath. At least that was my reaction when I started weeding around our Ginkgo tree avenue in Elizabeth Park.

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