California Poppies
The California Poppy is the state flower of, you guessed it, California! They grow wild along the hillsides and easily in the garden too. They close up at night and open up again with the morning sun. Sometimes they stay closed in windy or cloudy weather. It has been cloudy here in San Diego (yesterday's photo was taken a week ago), so maybe these little ones are confused.
posted by at Wednesday, June 07, 2006
8 Comments:
How beautiful!!!!
I love that gold color -
we have red ones here - I'll try to get a nice shot of them too.
wow the colors are so dramatic - I did not know that was Calis state flower - ours is the yellow hibiscus - that could be a DP theme hmmmmm
Are these poppies the ones used to make cocaine?
wow! a splendid image :o !!
Beautiful flowers,love the hats in the shop below more.
lovely flowers, great photo!
Very nice
So, that's what they are! Great Shot!
Thanks everyone. Wilf has a really nice photo of the red poppies in Real, France. Opium comes from poppies and I read on wikipedia that extract of California poppies are a mild sedative.
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