#papaver

Entangled by Lotte Krønkjær

Plant of the Day

Friday 13 May 2022

Running through this bed at Great Dixter, Sussex, was Papaver dubiumsubsp.lecoqii ‘Albiflorum’ (Beth’s poppy) that was just starting to flower. This delicate poppy is an annual that will self-sow in a sunny, well drained site.

Jill Raggett

One of the bees from our hives collecting pollen from the poppy garden, feat. Phoebe Bridgers.

More poppies from my poison garden—

“A scarlet dream, Her seeds a suffumigation to Hypnos in the abatons— that the Aesculapian snake might whisper curative hymns in your ear.”

“Then Helen, Daughter of Zeus, […] cast into the wine they were drinking a phármakon to quiet all pain and strife”—