I’ve picked poppies as June’s Plant of the Month, but depending on the type and where you are they can start blooming as early as March.
In the Arizona desert the wild California poppies bloom only when there’s enough rain, which is approximately once every four years, usually in late February, early March. 
Welsh poppies bloom in the early spring, with tissue-thin flowers that are range from yellow to orange.
The delicate Welsh poppy seed pods appear in July. 
The poppies that bloom in June range from orange-red to purple-red with the occasional pinks.
June poppies in Monet’s Garden in Giverny, France.
Wild poppies and cornflowers in the photo app Psykopaint. 
Red poppies by a lake in a Copenhagen Park, Denmark. 
Fiery red poppy aglow in the late afternoon light.
I had these coral pink poppies in my garden where they willingly posed for me.
My watercolour on cheap paper doesn’t do justice to the intense coral colour of the flowers.
After the poppy had lost its petals and stamens the only thing left was this fuzzy purple centre with the seed pod forming underneath. 
Red poppy with a young seed pod forming next to it. 
Sketching dried out Poppy seed pods.
Batz Gallery 
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