Plants of 2020
Mouse
September 17, 2020
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This year some plants really stood out.
One of my current favourites is the Oriental poppy (Papaver orientalis) which is usually red, but this one is known as Royal Wedding, and is white with a tiny tinge of pink, and the center is dark purple. This one bloomed in June, but for some reason it has decided to throw out a bloom in September as well. They have really large blooms that don't last long, but they are spectacular.
Very dramatic, these poppies don't like hot weather very much but they do like sun. At some point I should photograph the seed pods.
Another I really like is the Gold Heart Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis). Most Bleeding Hearts have green foliage but this one is kind of yellow green. It makes pretty much anything in front of it look great. The flowers are the usual pink.
This bleeding heart is at the centre of a long flower bed. In the Spring it had tulips in front of it. People call it gold, but it has a certain lime green quality.
It looked good till August, when there were periods of extremely hot weather. On a side note, I really like the contrasts it makes possible.
