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.

Ooh, I like poppies. We've just cut down the enormous bush in our tiny front yard and now have a flower bed, I've been wondering what on earth we can plant- ds2 has transplanted a cardboard cup he's growing carrots in but I don't think his plan for a full on vegetable garden is feasible. Poppies look nice and don't sound like hard work.

Oh I love poppies. And tulips. Yabu

I've always thought poppies look arrogant.

HRTFT. Apologies, tired.
I like poppies. The reason they're used as a symbol for the British Legion is that they were the only damn thing that would keep growing through the bomb rubble. You'd see whole streets bombed, and up would come the poppies, that's why they were chosen.

Poppies are lovely when they first come out but they do get straggly and tend to hang on for an awfully long time.

Iris never last long enough, in my opinion. Nor do wisteria, or lupins, or roses, or sweetpeas. If I had my way I'd have a lovely English cottage garden in a perennial state of late May.

Maybe just one or two poppies though....

Best thread ever.

I'm weeping here...

I find the OPs attitude to poppies galling. Galling I tell you.

Do you kick them OP? Just for not being in the right place?

It's people like you that have ruin society.

There were some opium poppies growing out of a wall on our road, they were there for many many years according to the owner of the wall (he's in his 60s and has lived there all his life). The council sent a weed killing sprayer machine down here about 3 years ago, it killed the dandelions and the rosemary willowherb and has also destroyed the lovely poppies that came up every summer and made the wall look beautiful. Shame!

Sure soldiers who fought for our country hold that sane view.

I know it's not considered cricket to start advance searching another poster's posting history based on the evidence of a single post.

But in the circumstances, how could one resist?

I've always thought poppies look arrogant

Thank you for these poppy pictures, they have cheered me up

Poppies exist in other colours!!! And pp is right, dandelions are the herpes of plant world. Those pesky things are everywhere, our garden looks like an industrial dandelion farm! Plus the leaves are so stabby and ugly! I'll take the poppies thanks. Plus I don't piss off soldiers that way apparently .

Yabu. I've been weeding around the poppies outside my house, several are close to flowering. And I've chucked down more wild flower seeds. So ner 😛.

OP,

Might your neighbour be using "wild flowers" as camouflage for his latest crop?

I know it's not considered cricket to start advance searching another poster's posting history based on the evidence of a single post.

cricket?

If advance search exists, it's to be used!

Pencils,

"There's this house a few doors down from us where a little old lady used to live. She spent every fine day sitting on her doorstep drinking rum out of a pop bottle, plying passing children with sweets and shouting at us all for not going to church..."

Love the image painted of your Whitebells Neighbour.
Can understand exactly why you smile when seeing her "escapees"
How sad that her garden was concreted over by the newcomers: shame on them.

Thug flowers......

Make
Some opium

Sure soldiers who fought for our country hold that sane view

This thread should be in classics for that post alone.

Checked with DH, who completed 2 tours of Iraq on the frontline...couldn't give a fuck about poppies. They make him sneeze!

Bloody poppies need to know their place.

My grandfather fought in WWII. He was also an avid and meticulous gardener who was constantly banging on about the scourge of poppies that were always trying to overtake his perfectly organised garden.

He would have fucking loved the herpes comparison.

I love seeing poppies. But can't believe how quickly they spread in my relative's garden (have been helping to start a veg patch). Still not as prolific as the bluebells! Also pretty, but my god they are EVERYWHERE.

I havent kicked the poppies yet. Yet.

Napqueen Your poppies have brightened up my morning by proxy!