I love orange poppies. I especially love it when they are growing wild in a field
But I also love them when planted in a neighbor’s yard.
Welcome to Week #9 of Spring Festival 2023 where we can share images of spring from our own neighborhoods.
This challenge will probably run for 10-12 weeks, with the last week being a wrap up. You can link up here, or on any of the individual weeks. Be sure to tag your post Spring Festival 2023 so it is easy to find in the reader.
Click here to see other images of how Spring has sprung in my neighborhood.
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The Day After 
Love these poppies! We used to have fields of them like this when we lived in California. Always made me feel happy!
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This is what I am reading. Sounds like Californy is the place I oughta be. 😉
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Beautiful Dawn, these look like Icelandic poppies. I managed to grow a few when we lived in Sacramento, but the orange California poppies grow wild everywhere! Happy Spring!
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I’d love to see that. Thanks Terri.
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Lovely!,
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Thanks Sue.
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I would call these red poppies and I agree that they are at their best when growing wild in fields, sadly the days when you saw the margins of fields covered in wild poppies are long gone, though there is an area in Cornwall that has a magnificent display. Usually at the beginning of June. I’m still wandering around the lanes close to home:
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Over the years I have come across a field of poppies or two. not for several years though. I’m not sure if maybe the farmers don’t plant it for the nutrients, like they do the red clover. That would explain why there is a field of poppies one year and gone the next.
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Problem is the overuse of fertilisers and chemicals.
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😦
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I miss the California poppies but we do have some around our area. For some reason something switched on me as far as my website address and I tried to correct it, but it’s not letting me. I think it will still work.
https://wordpress.com/post/inotherwordsandpictures.wordpress.com/16774
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Try again.
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Hopping in again to share a couple of arrowleaf sunflowers and alpine lupine, Dawn. https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/05/21/sunday-stills-appreciating-our-pets-and-playgrounds/
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