It looks like the lighting was a little harsh... just my opinion... looks
like bright overhead sun... I know you can't control the solar system.
What's the difference between wild poppies and unwild ones? Only who
planted them. :) We just planted several miilion wildflower seeds and have
all kinds of germination. Lupines, two kinds of Blanket Flowers, Chicory,
Flax, Columbines, Dames Rocket, and a few others I can't remember.
This place, where we purchased,
http://www.flowersoul.com/
seems to have pretty good prices. California Poppies, 1lb of seeds
(approximately 293,000) is $22 + shipping.
Tom C.
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Subject: PESO (1) - Poppy Choir - TGPH - Part III
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:24:49 EDT
...so semi-turned off by the poppies that sort of looked planted (seeds
scattered), in someone's front yard in Clayton, I thought of a county
hiking trail.
I'd seen quite a few poppies along it's edge last year.
I headed on over -- fewer poppies, by miles, this year. But still some.
Part
of the trail has houses on the other side. So I parked in front of a house
and
walked up the trail and took poppy shots.
Then when I was walking back, I spotted a little pot of land planted with
cultivated flowers of some kind, and a sign on a tree over it that read,
"Roxana's garden." This bordered the poppies that bordered the trail.
A woman right near where I parked was raking in her yard, so I went up to
her. "Are you Roxana?" Turns out it was her dog.
It also turned out, yup, county workers had weed wacked the whole area,
cutting down a lot of poppies in among the weeds.
But it also turned out, that the poppies I was looking at had been planted
by
HER!!! (Seeds scattered, still think one can't cultivate CA wildflower
poppies). And the poppies I had probably seen the previous year were also
seeded by
her.
She tried to get the county workers not to wack them down, but because
she'd
seeded them, and they were not natural, I suppose it was not an offense
against the state law to not destroy poppies.
They were still California poppies, but not, cough, really NATURAL poppies.
At this point in time, I am discouraged. No poppy fields, the natural
poppies
I have found are really mixed in with weeds, and they nice clumps I have
found have turned out to be (or likely were) seeded by someone.
WHERE ARE THE FIELDS OF NATURAL CALIFORNIA POPPIES? The fields of
yesteryear??? Even THE CLUMPS OF YESTERYEAR?
Sniff. Sniff.
However, image-wise, this was getting closer to what I want...
http://members.aol.com/eactivist/POPPIES/pages/poppy4.htm
But I think it's a little too cut off on the left.
And, frank, Peter, does this look too soft too?
The great poppy hunt goes on... searching for the wild poppy in its natural
wild habitat...
Marnie aka Doe ;-)
