The Cabbage

 

I nicknamed the opium poppy which has taken over the perennial bed in the back garden "the cabbage". This is just one plant that is five feet high and a mass of peony like flowers. The correct name is Papaver somniferum var. paeoniflorum but opium poppies come in many colours, shapes and sizes they also have many names too :- 

carnation poppy
dream plant
fairy's charms
flower of Venus
Joan silver pin
John's silver pin
marble flower
maw seed
moonflower
opium
peony poppy
sweet slumber
white poppy