June 8, 2011 6

Beauty in the city

By in Griping, love

No need to ramble on about how hot it was today, you felt it too, right? We don’t have AC here so I was forced out to buy a couple fans to keep air circulating. Lucky for me, I came across the prettiest irises I have ever seen. Most around here are variations on purple, some white, yellow and burgundy, but peach? Wow. Thank you!

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Stunning. The smell of them will always remind me of coming home late at night when I was a teenager-there was a row of them along the front walkway on Wolseley Ave.

Of course poppies. You know how I feel about poppies-really good. They might be my favourite flowers of them all. This patch is around the corner and every year I mean to ask for a seed pod and every year I forget.

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I’m glad no one picks them so everyone can enjoy them.

6 Responses to “Beauty in the city”

  1. Twwly says:

    I bought half a kilo of poppy seeds for planting this year. I’ll give you as many pods as you want in the fall, ha!

    xx

  2. corrie says:

    mt mom had a huge patch of poppies at her old place, i’ve always wanted some here, and i think we tried to plant some seeds from her old place the first year with no luck

  3. Caitlin Jane says:

    I think, with poppies (and I will happily admit it if I’m wrong and someone who is an expert knows better) the trick is to sprinkle the seeds from the dried pod over the ground where you want new poppies, at the time when established plants would be doing the same on their own steam, and hope for the best. I also think that they like hot weather.

  4. Caitlin Jane says:

    Ashley, yes please!!

  5. Steph says:

    Poppies are so pretty!

    That bag (in a previous post) is adorable btw

  6. Caitlin Jane says:

    I just made another birthday bag, this one for a second birthday to hold books, I’m getting the hangof this!

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