You may not see your photos appearing immediately because I am trying to phase adding them to the Meconopsis Species Gallery, starting with Meconopsis baileyi, M. gakyidiana and M. grandis. These three species are the main ones from which the big blue perennial poppies we grow in our gardens arose, by selection and hybridisation. They all have the ‘false whorl’ of bracts above which are peduncles with flowers on top. I don’t know why it’s a ‘false’ whorl, as I have never found any explanation of this term, even in Christopher Grey-Wilson’s authoritative work ‘The Genus Meconopsis – Blue poppies and their relatives’ published in 2014. Does anyone know?
Photos of any other species will be filed away and used when I have enough to do the appropriate pages, so please do not hesitate to send them in. New photos or older ones are equally acceptable; you can either rush out into the garden to take some now or sort out ones from previous years.
species-gallery@themeconopsisgroup.org
