I walked past a neighbours house on my way home just now and she was tending her front garden. I said ‘Hi how are you?’ and before I had chance to comment on the glorious poppies I’ve been admiring for the last week, she said ‘Would you like some of these seed heads when they’re ready?’ Did I pounce? You bet I did!
So with a bit of luck this time next year I’ll have my own.
Imagine when I saw that the photo challenge this week is vivid, it was made for these flowers don’t you think?
If anyone knows what variety these are, my neighbour and I would both love to know please.
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Lucid Gypsy 
Marvelous.
Thank you Cee!
very nice
Wonderfully vivid!
How thoughtful your neighbor is.:) Beautiful take on for the vivid. 🙂
Thank you, and I’ve rewarded her with cuttings!
🙂
GORGEOUS! GORGEOUS! GORGEOUS!
The phone didn’t quite capture the depth of the colour but they are gorgeous indeed 🙂
A perfect fit for the prompt. 🙂
Thanks Celestine!
Lovely photo – possibly some variety of the Opium Poppy.
Thank you, apparently its a variety called Ladybird!
Stunning image, Gilly. Good luck with the seeds. 🙂
Thank you, apparently the variety is called ladybird 🙂
Aren’t they just gorgeous, Gilly? I love them! And what a nice neighbour 🙂 Happy weekend!
She is a sweetie and is teaching her little boys to appreciate gardening so I think that’s great. I’ve given her some cuttings!
Found some superb blue poppies in Norwich today 🙂
I tried to grow those once, an epic fail 😏
😦
They’re a heady looking variety… they want to make one dance with that colour..
The colour is even more intense in real life!
Shirley poppies??
‘Ladybird’ 🙂
These poppies are ravishing in their crimson bonnets. I don’t know the type, but one of my next door neighbors had poppies and the wind carried their seeds everywhere. Everywhere. 😀 ❤ ❤
You can never have too many poppies!
😀 😀 😀 That is true as well.
Stunning!
They are indeed 🙂
Leaves Sydney Vivid for dead. And the wonderful sharpness of the centre in the poppy on the left.
Not too bad for a phone!
Beautiful poppies, I don’t know their name last time I saw poppies like them they were being grown by tribes people in the Golden Triangle.
As in India you mean? I didn’t see poppies there, but I did learn that these are the variety Ladybird!
I am no authority but they looked the kind. I declined an offer to try it out as it was legal for any one over sixty there.
Red is such a vibrant and vivid colour, well chosen for this theme Gilly. Gardeners are the most generous of people aren’t they?
They are yes, I’ve returned the favour 🙂
Can’t wait to see your own poppies vivid photos next year! what a nice neighbor.
I hope they grow and the neighbour is teaching her little boys about gardening, wonderful!
Absolutely gorgeous! As vivid as vivid can be 🙂
Even more so ‘in the petal’ so to speak!
These are absolutely gorgeous Gilly. 🙂
Variety! “red” yep yep an vividly brillianT! 😎
Beautiful – I love the way gardeners love to share!
Me too Eliza, everyone wins 🙂