{"id":15187,"date":"2016-05-10T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15187"},"modified":"2016-05-10T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:36:23","slug":"a-splash-of-colour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15187","title":{"rendered":"A splash of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have poppies, amongst other things, self seeded around the garden but we had an empty pot that had held an annual last year and a yellow poppy has self seeded itself perfectly in the middle of this pot. It looks like it has been planted and can happily stay there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15201\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15201\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15201\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15201\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/self_seeded-yellow_poppy.jpg\" alt=\"Self seeded yellow poppy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/self_seeded-yellow_poppy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/self_seeded-yellow_poppy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/self_seeded-yellow_poppy-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self seeded yellow poppy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have planted various bulbs in the nine years we have lived here but have long since given up planting tulips as they never come back after the first year. I think the squirrels, of which we have many, dig them up.<\/p>\n<p>However the few tulips that were already in this garden when we moved in have survived. They don&#8217;t increase in number but they do come up each year. My favourite of these are this little group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15202\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15202\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15202\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15202\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/when_closed.jpg\" alt=\"A bright splash when closed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/when_closed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/when_closed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/when_closed-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bright splash of colour when closed<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15203\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15203\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15203\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tulips.jpg\" alt=\"An even brighter splash when opened\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tulips.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tulips-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tulips-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An even brighter of colour splash when open<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every year there are just four of them but they are beautiful. In fact I have photographed them before but just couldn&#8217;t resist doing it again. I love the contrasting yellow centres when they open up in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>They are a lovely splash of colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have poppies, amongst other things, self seeded around the garden but we had an empty pot that had held an annual last year and a yellow poppy has self seeded itself perfectly in the middle of this pot. 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