Blue meconopsis flowers are really special so I thought I’d share more photos of these from the garden we had when we lived in The Catlins. We also had a meconopsis with lemon-coloured flowers and the same plant had golden fur over its leaves and stem, very special. New Zealand. Photos by Nigel.
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Text by Liz, photos by Nigel; Exploring Colour (2020)
Exploring Colour 
Utterly gorgeous! The blue poppies grow in Scotland and I used to see them at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh and at some of the large gardens, especially on the west coast. I tried to grow them in my own garden in Scotland a couple of times but sadly they died out after just a few years. I miss seeing them! (Too hot and dry here.)
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Ah yes, that reminds me. I think I’ve seen advice to grow more on from seed for that very reason, they’ll just suddenly die off. Good thing to keep in mind so one is prepared, I’d forgotten!
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So very beautiful! So much beauty in nature to offset the ugliness of today’s world. Thank you!
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My pleasure Jill, nature is endlessly fascinating.
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Very special indeed! The blue ones look quite surreal.
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What a lovely shade of blue and wonderful detail!
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They’re amazing flowers Ellen!
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Gorgeous. I wish I could grow them here but they just don’t seem to like it this far north.
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The cool wet climate in The Catlins suited them perfectly. We had them round the back of the shed, south end, where they were in the shade pretty much all the time.
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I remember seeing them at Larnach Castle. Stunning
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Blue flowers so often the sickly child! These are gorgeous, you can grow them in the UK, but probably to much maintenance required for my kind of gardening!
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In the cool wet climate of The Catlins these needed no special attention.
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Love!
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The color and close-ups are stunning!
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Thanks Donna. Blue meconopsis is a truly stunning flower.
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I know they’re real, but they’re so unusual. They remind me of carnations that have been dyed by allowing them to stand in colored water.
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Such a blue flower as this admittedly looks pretty unreal!
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Such an unusual colour. I love seeing big clumps of this flower – very special!
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Once our plant had settled in it flowered profusely, I was surprised how many blooms would form on the one plant. You can see it put up a good number of stems and each stem had lots of buds.
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Your dear Nigel is certainly taking some amazing photos, Liz! I particularly like the second image down with the dark background and the water droplets.
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I thought a dark background would be good and we made do with his black sweatshirt. The portraits were taken Dec 2014 and the multi-head shots mid-Nov 2015. The meconopsis did well in the cool wet climate of The Catlins with little attention required.
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I love these flowers, very uncommon here. It is their delicate colour of blue that does it. Thank you for posting these!
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Very happy to know you enjoyed them 🙂
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