Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Return to Suffolk

We returned to a Suffolk which had seen some heavy rain in our absence and, after a couple of days of reasonable weather, experienced of a day and night of thunderstorms which included this impressive cloud formation yesterday evening and a firework display of lightning in the early hours of this morning - weather we might have expected in Canada at this time of year.

We also returned to a mystery in our garden - the source of an explosion of poppies, none of which we had planted and which, when we left three weeks ago, had hardly started to appear. The seeds of some, particularly the ordinary, red poppies, might have blown in from the fields but surely these double ones, which came in shades of pink and....

....lilac, must have derived from human cultivation.

They're all over the garden, are quite beautiful, and are very popular with insects, so we're going to collect their seeds to ensure we see more of them in the future.

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