prince of extremely orange

so yesterday was gorgeous gardening weather--not too hot, slight breeze, no bugs, it has rained for weeks so the soil is wet and easy to work. so i bought lovey three beautiful poppy plants (papaver orientalis "prince of orange")(see below)

isn't it gorgeous?? it's for lovey b/c she loves bright colors and especially loves all kinds of colors together in a flowerbed. so it will be next to a pink stargazer lily and two purple delphiniums and a bunch of yellow daisies and also pink and white peonies, wow!!! i planted them, also weeded the beds and moved a bunch of columbine and solomon's seal off to the woods, since they're native woodland plants and i wish there were more of them.

i also had to "thin" some seedlings for love-in-a-mist... i hate "thinning" seedlings...it's like frickin' sophie's choice, ok, well, it's probably icky to compare myself in my lovely garden to sophie in a concentration camp, but i'm so thrilled when anything grows, i hate to pull it up, even weeds! and when i have to pull seedlings for pretty flowers--and then sitting there trying to decide which seedling looks the most vigorous, then pulling the others, seems sad for some reason. well, it did yesterday. maybe i got a little carried away.