I don’t generally do requests, but when a lovely lady asks it would be churlish to refuse. Our capricious English weather has produced wonderful gardens this year, as you might have seen in my Open Gardens walk this week. There’s currently a bee fest going on in my own garden, where the foxgloves are rampant. An oriental poppy, planted last year, has just decided to swirl its skirts and join the party.
A fan of faded glory and all things derelict, when I mentioned it Sue surprised me by saying ‘I love pink oriental poppies. Take a photo for me!’ So here we are. I’m easing off the brake pedal a bit this week. There won’t be a Six Word Saturday from me as I’ll be in Nottingham, enjoying my daughter’s company. Before I go I’ll schedule a walk for next Monday, and catch up with you as soon as I can. Enjoy the sunshine!
Oh…just gorgeous!
They’re rather battered by the rains now, but they were glorious. 🙂 🙂
Such exquisite blooms, Jo. You really did a great job with your lens. Enjoy Nottingham and being with your daughter. I’m seeing mine in Johannesburg on Thursday, then to England on Monday. Hope the summer weather holds up until we get there. xx
It’s been unnaturally warm Ad but I just about coped. Heading home now. Hate goodbyes xx
I’ve enjoyed that beauty on some of your social media, Twitter? It’s gorgeous! Enjoy your hot weather. My husband and I are in Las Vegas today and it may get over 110. It was 117 on Thursday when we arrived. Good time to blog and enjoy the products of YOUR heat! 🙂
We’re not so used to it here but doing our best to acclimatise x
Looks like you’ve done a great job. Your flowers are beautiful.
Lovely color and captures, Jo! Enjoy your time with your daughter.
Thanks a lot hon x
Beautiful, Jo. Enjoy every moment with your daughter!
It’s wonderful thanks x
Wonderful jo, enjoy being in my birth countryside and your daughter, much love, barbara x
Thanks a lot, Barbara. I’m almost too excited to type 🙂 🙂
Well I’m not ‘the’ Sue but I am very happy to see these lovelies. 🙂
Much too fit and active to be ‘the’ Sue, and lucky to be so, Sue! And very welcome to share the loveliness. 🙂 🙂
So beautiful! Enjoy Nottingham and your daughter.
Thanks a lot, Nicki 🙂 🙂 I will!
What a beautiful flower.
I love oriental poppies, Leanne. Glad you like it 🙂 🙂
So excited to find your blog (from Le Drake Noir). I’m coming to visit England in September and look forward to getting some travel ideas from your pretty posts.
And those poppies are gorgeous, by the way. I always want to include them in my garden but then forget (always) that you have to plant them two seasons ahead. One day. Hopefully!
Nice to meet you, and thanks very much! 🙂 🙂 Whereabouts are you headed? I’ll come an have a look around yours in a little while.
Nice to meet you too! We are spending a few days in London and then deciding where to go from there for the next week. We have thoughts on Scotland and Ireland but maybe just the English countryside. So many pretty places – still daydreaming;)
Can I suggest maybe Bath? https://restlessjo.me/2017/05/15/jos-monday-walk-beautiful-bath/ But you’ll be spoilt for choice. 🙂
Stunning Jo 🙂 have a marvellous time in Nottingham the pair of you, don’t get up to too much mischief together!!
Who me? 🙂 🙂 We’ll have Leo to keep a responsible eye on us. Hugs, darlin!
Hee hee . . . . . . .hope Leo managed to keep you both in order!!
Just about xx
Oh I love them Jo! Such a gorgeous shade of pink. Enjoy your time with Lisa 🙂
Thanks, Madhu! I’m so looking forward to it 🙂 🙂
Beautiful, looks as if your spring is awesome this year. Enjoy your visit.
It’s been such a mixed bag of weather, Ineke, but the plants are loving it. Thanks a lot! I will 🙂 🙂
So gorgeous those oriental poppies! Sadly enough, I can’t keep them in my garden. Still just the sight of them here makes my day :)!
They are joyful, the way they swirl around, aren’t they? Happy to share 🙂 🙂
It never ceases to amaze me the details and symmetry that can be found in nature and they are never the same, yet absolutely beautiful. Enjoy you time with your daughter!!!
Thanks so much, Patrick! It will be wonderful to see her again. 🙂 🙂
Gorgeous flouncy flowers, I love them! Have a lovely time with your beautiful girl, daughters are awesome 🙂
I don’t think I replied to your last email, back when I was wrapped up in sorrow, forgive me? Lovesya 🙂
I may well owe you an email, Gilly, but we’ll have a catch up after the weekend, if that’s ok. I’m glad to think that you might not be wrapped up in sorrow now, though you’re bound to miss them all the time. Sending hugs, hon. 🙂 🙂
oh so beautiful, Jo! have a great time with your daughter! 🙂
Thanks so much, LolaWi! I will 🙂 🙂
wonderful photos, we had some of these in our garden, too
There are lots this year, and I love them! 🙂 🙂 Thanks!
Thanks for showing these pictures, Jo. The flowers are simply gorgeous. I can (nearly) smell them even. 😉
It’s been a great Summer for flowers so far, Pit, and we’ve barely even started. 🙂 🙂
Fantastic pictures of the flowers, Jo. I can (nearly) smell them. 😉
Oops! Found you hiding in the spam, Pit! We still don’t seem to have resolved these issues with WP, do we? Sending hugs! 🙂 🙂
Well, as I commented on another blog {Notes from the UK], it’s baffling, it’s frustrating, and it’s – to my mind – very poorly desdigned software.
These are amazing and we are lucky to have some in our garden this year…a wonderous natural artwork! The photos are fantastic and I couldn’t stop but gaze at the first one. Have a lovely time with your daughter and enjoy Nottingham. 😀
I was out walking at Richmond this morning and it was like a poppy spotting expedition. I found some beauties. Maybe a post for yet another day 🙂 🙂 Thanks, darlin. I haven’t seen Lisa since October so I’m really looking forward to it.
Yikes!! October!!! Have a BRILLIANT time!!😃😃 You’ll have a LOT of catching up to do.
Gorgeous Jo – that’s about all I can say. Okay one other thing, wish I was there to see them in person, just a beautiful collection of these poppies.
There seem to be lots this year, Mary. I’ve just come back from a walk where I saw a load more 🙂 🙂
Was it hard to stop smiling?
It was 🙂 🙂
How beautiful!
They are fabulous, Lisa 🙂 🙂
I love the colors. And the sunshine!! Have a wonderful weekend with your daughter, Jo!
Yay! Sunshine 🙂 🙂 Doesn’t it just transform the world, Liesbet? 🙂 Thanks, I will do!
Thanks from my part too…
The sequence looks wonderful!
The whole garden is humming with life, Anna! Wonderful what a bit of sunshine can do. 🙂 🙂
Fabulous photos, Jo!
Fabulous sunshine, Jill! 🙂 🙂
Beautiful Joanne. Enjoy the time with your daughter.
It will be wonderful to see her again, Sami. I haven’t since last October. 🙂 🙂
Wow how very stunning! I love poppies – one of my favorite flowers. I have never seen a pink poppy!!! Only red. So gorgeous.
Peta
We have some fabulous varieties at the moment, Peta, including a wonderful coral coloured one. 🙂 🙂
Lovely macro Jo.
They’re so pretty, Arlene! I couldn’t even remember what colour this one was going to be. 🙂
I like them Jo.
Gorgeous!
Alison
So flamboyant, Alison! I love it 🙂 🙂
Beautiful. I’m glad Sue asked! Have a great time with your daughter.
I am glad Sue asked, too.
It’s a warm, sultry day today, with not a lot of sunshine, but the poppies seem happy, Ann. As am I to find you here. Is all well with you? 🙂 🙂
Things are not so good at the moment Jo. Feeling a bit overwhelmed.
So sorry to hear that hon. I’m just traveling back from my daughter’s. Hope there’s a solution? Sending hugs xx
I guess there is a solution somewhere. May take a while to find. Hugs back.
That doesn’t sound good. Family troubles, or yourself, or a combination? I will check out your blog later but there’s been nothing new for a while.
Not much happening on my blog at all, I’m afraid.
Email me if a sympathetic ear will help. It’s on my about page. 🙂
Done 🙂
She’s a good soul and I’m in awe of her photography so I thought I’d give it a go. 🙂 🙂 Thanks, Carol! Really looking forward to it.
Oh, these are wonderful, Jo! Thank you for taking me up on my request, and sending lots of happy hugs! Have a great weekend with your daughter..
They ARE wonderful, and we have you to thank!
Thanks!!
Glad you like them, Sue 🙂 🙂 I’ve just come back from a riverside walk at Richmond and there were heaps more out and about. Skinny, frilly ones I’ve not seen before and some soft coral ones. No, don’t! This could become a recurring theme 🙂
Hoho! I’ve been up to London to see the Hokusai exhibition…great, but it’s so hot I did find it very tiring….
It looks fantastic, Sue! Plenty of time to put your feet up now. It’s really close and muggy here too. 🙂
My feet are well and truly up, and I’m watching the news about the tragic events at the tower block in London…horrendous
I tried not to look, Sue. I’m horrified of fire. They’ve had no luck in London lately, have they? Whereabouts was the exhibition?
The exhibition was at the British Museum, a fairly short taxi ride from Farringdon station where I travelled to from home. It was so hot, I thought it was best to conserve what energy I could!
Gorgeous flowers Jo! Enjoy the sunshine and spending time with your daughter xx 🙂
Thanks a lot, Rosemay. Just about to have breakfast in the garden 🙂 🙂
Sounds delightful Jo – enjoy 🙂