To be pissed off with the poppies?

[NapQueen]

《Semi lighthearted》

Live on a row of terraces, with a small area to the front of each property with a little wall round it. Some have gravel, some grass, some nothing blah blah.

One resident appears to have just chucked a shit load of wild flower seeds down in his and honestly, jt lools bloody gorgeous.

BUT. THE POPPIES?!?!?

Since his garden has really blossomed, poppies are springing up all up and down the street. But not in a nice "ooh look at their pretty garden with the poppies in". More a "this street hasnt waxed its bikini line" way. One big lovely crazy 80s bush of poppies is nice. But the stragglers growing out of cracks in walls, along the road edge, out of random pots on other peoples fronts.

Every day I come home and theres another frigging poppy on the street. They truly are the herpes of the plant world. Which is a shame as unlile herpes, they really are pretty.

I just wish they would stay put.

I had a bath, watched Double Downton and have just come back on MN. Sorry, red poppies.

And I make no connection with them over running our street and the poppy appeal. I would be just as put out if they were tulips, which are my favourite flower.

I will get a pic tomorrow as I go to work. And i will try and snap the wildflower garden too.

Yes its the stragglyness of them. They are everywhere. Its taken about 10 days and as I walk down the street I cN see them nestling in to new nooks and crannies and bedding down for the summer.

"Scatter some love-in-a-mist around and soon there will be no room left for the poppies."

Nope - in our case the self-seeding bastards are hand-in-hand, plotting together to take over our entire garden. I collect entire jars of seeds every year (then eat them as revenge). They are the bullies of the plant world. Did you know a poppy seed can survive dormant for 100 years in soil before popping up?! OP, I'm totally with you.

PerspicaciaTick housing agency they do regular walk arounds the area with other residents to check out gardens and basically inspect. I imagine they would have a problem with anything other than nice cut grass, maybe I should ask them though.

I went out early (well 8am ish) and the bees were fighting over the poppies, up to four a flower head...

How about it's a public forum and therefore I don't have to shut because you say so.

Well you are quite right - you don't have to shut up because someone says so. But if you have any sense you will. Your first post was the most fantastically ridiculous thing I have seen on mumsnet in a long time.

I personally don't mind poppies but ivy is the work of the devil. It must be the zombie of the plant world. You pull it down and rip it up and attack its roots with an axe. But still it comes back to life when your back is turned.

Poppies on grass. Fine.
Poppies in a contained area such as garde, pot plant, verge. Fine.
Poppies sprouting randomly out of walls and on the road. Fucking annoying.

Dh thinks its hilarious. He and the dcs pulled some up the other day and wedged them into our front pot plants so the buggers were taunting me as I got home from work.

I've got a Poppy upstairs in bed

Neatly tucked where she ought to be too Ill bet.

She'd better be

5foot I've been fighting the ivey for 18 years...thought we had it beat, not seen any for a few years and this year the bastard has reared its head again

Oldraver
Thank you

Bedding down for the summer sounds like a LOVELY thing for poppies to be doing.

Round my way, we have some kind of mite which attacks the ivy, leaves it brown, dead and webby. It must walk rather than fly, because it travels quite slowly along walls.

I had a patch that persisted, because it was under my apple tree which I used to spray for aphids. When I stopped spraying, the ivy died.

I'm with disastrousflapjack. All the shit going on in the world and you are getting cross because there are too many flowers!

The world isn't all about people, you know. There are a bajillionty other species just muddling through and finding niches as well. So here's to your poppies and to my white bluebells and to pidgeons and parakeets, urban foxes and feral cat colonies. Fuck it, here's to japanese knotweed and houseflies as well! Survivors, all of them!

Just relax and welcome your new poppy overlords

The Poppy Appeal dont use opium poppies. They use field poppies.

I love poppies so fuck off.

HTH

Loving poppy overlords

@Oldraver were you deliberately showing opium poppies on your earlier post? Bad Mumsnetter. Were you growing them to calm downnostringstoholdmedown ?

My mum had some opium poppies in the garden when we were kids. They were so beautiful but we were all so straight laced we never thought to see what they could do .

We have them everywhere in our street two, there is no one culprit they have just gone rogue!

@Oldraver. Oh god that's discouraging. Poor DH has put in Herculean efforts last year and this to get rid. He has teetered on our highest ladder to get it down from roof level while I have hacked away womanfully at the stuff I can reach from the ground.

We have ambitions of one day putting a little shed in that corner of the garden but have to be sure it is all gone first.

We have ambitions of one day putting a little shed...

I just read that back. How sad and middle aged do we sound.

I am laughing my head off at how quickly this thread escalated.

There's truly some utter dobbers out there.

I probably shouldn't say our ivy ate the shed...well the roof

Thesnork In fairness the ones in the picture I didn't technically sow myself but will be collecting the seeds...they were delivered to me by a man in a tip up truck