Being obsessed with making breads of various kinds, and starting to grow various flowers in the garden meant that growing poppies for seeds is highly attractive. Spotting seeds for Hungarian bluebeard poppies last summer in a seed catalogue I bought a packet and sowed them, on the ground and in trays. The seed trays produced delicate seedlings, but i never did see the seeds sprout in the ground. Late winter I transplanted the seedlings into the ground, and watched and watched, as slowly they began to grow. Knowing where the seedlings had been planted did not convince me that the plants were actually poppies, but once they became bigger it became more obvious these were poppies, and now they are flowering. I took a picture of these yesterday, soon after watering the area around the plants, where new seeds had been sown; droplets of water are on the petals which are partially closed. The flower had been open for a couple of days, but the camera was reluctant to work the day before, battery exhausted... again! I will upload another photo when the flower opens or others appear in the neighbouring poppy plants.
