Nasturtiums! (WTF?!)

OK, so I was gonna title this post “Poppies for Jane” ’cause, turns out she likes ’em, too ... and then I was thumbing through this cool book called Best Garden Plants for Illinois from Lone Pine Publishing (which, OK, authors Aldritch and Williamson, I have not yet had time to review, but here I am, promoting your publication on a World Wide Web site that is visited every day by, like, 20-some people [most of them stopping by, it seems, by Googling “how to cut your own hair” and finding that post I made a summer or two ago when my gal-pal and her mother, who also happened to cut my hair at the time, had a major falling out and I did not wish to get caught in the middle of that, so I bought some clippers and gave myself a haircut!]) and discovered that the flowers I had photographed are not poppies but are, in fact, nasturtiums!

Who knew?

(Hmm, probably every fledgling horticulturalist out there ... which, obviously, I am not. I mean, what the hell, the only plant that I have proven, consistently, that I can keep from killing is the philodendron ... which, as we all know, is virtually impossible to kill. Yes, I do seem to have good luck with the philodendrons!)

: )

I have to say, I like these lil’ nasti plants, even the leaves. The flowers remind me of a cross between a poppy and a hibiscus — a poppibiscus, perhaps! — and we all know how I feel about those flowers.

Love ’em!

: )

So, anyway, Jane: These are for you. (Freshly shot and everything!)