Joy on a Stem Poster

Also available as high quality note cards. Poppies are my indicator that Summer has arrived. They literally pop up out of nowhere, spread joy, then close up with one of the nicest looking seed pods I know of. They are grand from the first leaves, through to the seed pod just before it explodes. I think people who like poppies, live near each other. At least that is what my sampling of the neighborhood says. To go a step further, they even are in clusters as to what type of poppy. There are the Mexican/California Poppy homes. I get it. If you have a family, or something that absorbs all your time, sprinkle some seeds. Set it and forget it. Sometime later these amazing little baubles of orange appear and stay for a long time. Summer gardening for the next 5 years, checkbox. Then there are the extreme poppy growers; colors that won’t end on stem that reach to the sky. These plants are not perennial, so they are a bit more maintenance. But, what amazing outcomes: colors that you would