emotional support poppies
Some throwback photos1 of our california poppies in bloom. It's officially early spring as far as the garden is concerned, so we're in the business of pulling weeds2 and deciding which of our self-seeding natives can stay and which need Management.
The poppies have taken over much of the wide parkway and we were considering thinning them to make room for other things, but this morning over coffee, looking out the dining room window at the half-grown foliage, we decided to mostly let them run amok. Last year strangers were stopping on the street to compliment them so effusively, including asking us not to pull them up when they saw us gardening, I think they've become our neighbors' emotional support poppies.
plus: infinite bumblebees.
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fig. 01 may 04 2025
fig. 02 june 01 2024
fig. 03 july 04 2023
fig. 04 june 01 2024
I've made a commitment this year to taking consistent photos of the garden. on top of these being incredibly mid quality, they don't even begin to capture what the poppies are like at their peak.↩
so far mostly grass, hairy bittercress, and geranium, plus some daisies and dandelion (which we do leave in the lawn.) all signs point to a potentially decisive victory over flatweed, which has been the primary antagonist of our lives for the past four years.↩