Unfortunately, this is not the accurate color of my red poppies. They are actually a much deeper scarlet red, not orangey like in the picture. But one of my rules from the beginning of this process was that I was going to use the pictures straight out of the camera (no doctoring with Photoshop). Although…. since I can’t control what kind of video card you have in your computer, your resolution, or other video settings, lord knows what you are seeing on your monitor anyway. Maybe you are displaying the correct color.

These red poppies are really big and floppy and the petals don’t have quite the tissue paper quality of the pink poppy. But the color is very unusual for my yard so they really stand out. Plus they are really tall this year, over 4’.