Meconopsis

I have my first sprouts in what I think are the Meconopsis – see how many ‘days’ they last this time round.

I Kale Your Name* « Fairegarden 2009

The status of rare and endangered flora such as the populations of Saussurea obvallata, Meconopsis aculeata, Cypripedium cordigerum, Dactlyorhiza hatagirea, Aconitum spp. in permanent plots;

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

Associated herbs are gentians, Gentiana ornata and G. algida var. przewalskii, edelweiss Leontopodium jacotianum and Himalayan blue poppy Meconopsis horridula.

Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal 2008

Here, too, I noticed Meconopsis cambrica with orange flowers.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

Potentilla, Geranium, _ purple and yellow _Meconopsis, _ and the

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Some most delicate-flowered plants even defy the biting winds of these exposed regions; such are a prickly _Meconopsis_ with slender flower-stalks and four large blue poppy-like petals, a

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Gentians begin to unfold their deep azure bells, aconites to rear their tall blue spikes, and fritillaries and _Meconopsis_ burst into flower.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

I've already put in some hellebores, Meconopsis 'Slieve Donard' and 'Allspice' violas.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

After all, the cool, damp climate of Scotland is blue Meconopsis country and the place where Trilliums grow to the size of cabbages.

The Guardian World News 2010

They are such admired gardeners because North Hill can boast splendid uses of ordinary things like conifers and daffodils, but also some things few can grow, like the blue poppy, Meconopsis betonicifolia, and even blue African lilies.

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