Help -I'm after a plant but I can't remember what it's called

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Last year my Mum mentioned that she was.looking for a particular plant but couldn't find it. I'd love to surprised her with it as she is 100's of miles away stuck in lockdown alone. I think it was a type of poppy but it flowered with different coloured flowers on the same plant. I would probably recognise the name if I saw it. Does anyone have any idea what it might be?

Could it be a California Poppy? They can come in a mix of colours on the same plant I think.

Could it be a rose?

www.thompson-morgan.com/p/rose-tricolour-standard/t10691tm

There’s a Buddlia that has multi coloured flowers.

I was going to stay California Poppy

Definitely not Californian poppies it was more like an oriental poppy but different flowers on the same plant.

Not a buddleia or a rose it wasn't a shrub.

What colours were the flowers? Were they different shades of the same colour or completely different colours?

a hydrangea?

That tri colour rose is stunning!

Camelia or clematis?

Tri coloured hibiscus?

@EveryDayIsLikeMonday orange, red, yellow I think, maybe pink too.

Not a camelia or a clematis. Not a hibiscus either.

Definitely a smallish (rather than a shurb or a climber) perennial. It had a name like carnival or festival or harlequin + the plant type so harlequin poppy or similar.
I don't want to ask mum outright as I want to surprise her.

No to hydrangea too. But please keep the suggestions coming and thanks for all the ideas so far.

Nigella 'Persian Jewels'?

Well, there is the harlequin flower en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparaxis_tricolor

They're bulbs and flower late spring/early summer - I think maybe it's a bit late for this year if that is what you're thinking of.

Neither of those but thank you for the suggestions. Auntiedolly I would class the nigella as different plants if you know what I mean - one seed gives a blue flower and different seed a pink flower, the effect of a clump of them is multicoloured but this was one single plant that had had red and yellow and orange flowers.
Errol definitely not a bulb and it's flowers are different colours rather than each flower having several colours. But there are some beautiful suggestions here. Sadly not the one yet but I'm sure someone will come up trump's - the hive mind usually does.

If the flowers ae different colours on the same plant, it's because they open one colour and fade to a different colour - like, for example, Mina lobata which opens red and fades to cream and yellow, so each flower spike has three different coloured flowers on it, or "morning, noon and night" which has white and several shades of purple.

Cosmos?

Could it be a peony? Sounds and looks a bit like an oriental poppy!

I've found it! Poppy pizzicato
www.fleuroselect.com/awarded-varieties/variety/pizzicato
Thanks for all the suggestions folks there are some lovely plants among your suggestions.

Now it just have to find somewhere that has them in stock. I can find seeds but would like to send her a plant.

Oh, they're lovely, OP!

I've found somewhere with plug plants in stock and she should get three in a few days

Having looked this poppy up, I think you'll find that it comes in a range of colours, so it won't produce multi-coloured flowers on one plant. Each plant in the range will have one of the colours shown, not all on one plant ( I'd like to be wrong about that!) photos on websites can be very misleading sometimes, and show different colours all appearing to come from a single plant.
Good luck anyway!

When we mum mentioned it to me we were in a garden centre and she looked to see if they had any the description she gave me was of one in a friend's garden and she described at as different colours on the same on the same plant. I've ordered her three so if they are single colours hopefully she will get a mixture. The important thing is that it's a plant she spent most of last summer searching for and I have found it for her.