Double Dusty Rose Poppy from the Angel's Choir Mix #3
by J McCombie
Title
Double Dusty Rose Poppy from the Angel's Choir Mix #3
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Photograph - Untouched
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Groups: "Global Flowers Photography", "I Love Photography ...", and "Macro Photography Group".
This Angels Choir poppy is a beautiful soft pink with dark wine veins which give the flower an overall romantic dusty rose appearance depending on the way the sun hits it. "Poppy Angels Choir" are glorious poppies of exquisite beauty. This wonderful mixture of double flowered poppies, with silky textured blooms that dance on graceful nodding stems, in soft colours from whites to apricot-pinks, lilac-blues, creams and oranges also bi-colours and some interesting picotee types, is the result of almost ten years work. Now the magic of breeders art has transformed the poppy to give you magical garden flowers that leave you spellbound and breathless with their irresistible charm. They are easy to grow in almost any site, looking magnificent in the border, fantastic in large containers and will come up year after year in the garden, if seedlings are left to grow. When entered in the Fleuroselect trials these poppies erned the Fleuroselect Quality Mark. Flowers summer. Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).
Papaver rhoeas (common names include corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, red weed, coquelicot, and, due to its odour, which is said to cause them, as headache and headwark) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae. This poppy, a native of Europe, is notable as an agricultural weed (hence the "corn" and "field") and as a symbol of fallen soldiers.
P. rhoeas sometimes is so abundant in agricultural fields that it may be mistaken for a crop. The only species of Papaveraceae grown as a field crop on a large scale is Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy.
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November 8th, 2015
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Comments (5)
Bruce Bley
What a lovely macro capture of the poppy, J McCombie!! Love the composition and detail. Congratulations, your work has been feature in the group "Macro Photography Group" and is my Administrator Pick for the Day. F/L/T
J McCombie replied:
I am so pleased you've enjoyed it that much, Bruce Bley! Thank you for featuring this piece and making it your pick for the day! ...J.
Connie Handscomb
Such a very lovely macro ... ; soft .. elegant .. :))
J McCombie replied:
So glad you think so, Connie. To me, it's got a romantic feel to it. Thank you. ...J.