Sage and Shirley
by Chris Berry
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Sage and Shirley
Artist
Chris Berry
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Photograph - Photography
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A tiny Shirley poppy with Blue Sage. A red Asiatic lily in the background adds another splash of red. Years of reading, planning and gardening led to this 'natural' find in my garden early one summer morning. Shirley Poppy is the name given to an ornamental cultivar group derived from the European wild field poppy (Papaver rhoeas).
The Shirley poppy was created from 1880 onwards by the Reverend William Wilks, vicar of the parish of Shirley in England. Wilks found in a corner of his garden where it adjoined arable fields, a variant of the field poppy that had a narrow white border around the petals. By careful selection and hybridization over many years he obtained a strain of poppies ranging in colour from white and pale lilac to pink and red, and unlike the wild poppies these had no dark blotches at the base of the petals. Further selection has given rise to semi-double and double forms, as well as flowers with a ring of contrasting colour around the edge: the picotee form.
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June 28th, 2012
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Chris Berry
Priya, thank you very much for the visit-I have years of garden journals-now I'm busy shooting it all. Thanks also to Jane for coming by and commenting.
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