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Pale pink poppy – Papaver dubium ssp. lecoqii var. albiflorum

Papaver dubium ssp. lecoqii var. albiflorum at Great Dixter

Last year at Chelsea flower show I saw this pale pink poppy all over the show gardens. I’ve been searching for a while to find it and just recently I did.

Great Dixter’s plant fairs are always worth a visit; they invite a limited number of specialist nurseries in. These set up in the lower field in wonderfully quirky little plots made up of straw bales and a wriggly tin roofed shelter. It was on one of these plots that I spotted the pale pink poppy. Phoenix Perennial Plants, run by Marina, was the nursery supplying all the plants to those Chelsea show gardens.

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