Today has turned into an Oriental Poppy Day...
I've been having a lot of snail problems with the poppies, so I often nurse the blackened stemmed victims indoors...
I loved these poppies as a child, and my mum always called them 'Granny Poppies’, although I think she probably made that name up...
They've been in this garden, apparently for ever, and this is my son about 11 years ago ( in hand made trousers, I’d like to point out.. ), in those heady days before there was a far less serious snail situation...
Yesterday all looked well, but there was a lot of rain in the night, and although this morning there was a cluster of annual lovliness...
There was also this...
Not wanting to waste their fleeting beauty, I introduced them to The Table...
...added some texture ( I’ve had that curved stone on the left, by the way, since I was 7...I dug it up in the garden of some elderly family friends, and was utterly convinced that it was the tip of a mammoth’s tusk...my brother was very into fossils at the time... )
and then found them their snail-free light...
( well...almost! )
