Poppies!

 This is one of the poppies in the garden bed outside our family room.  Nothing unusual about it, it's just a gorgeously red poppy with a black centre of the sort that you find everywhere. I've been growing and enjoying them for years.

But this morning when I went out I discovered this beauty right beside the one above. The colour is rich and the centre a pale cream. I assume it's a mutation - and one I'd like to preserve but unfortunately by the time I found it the bees would have been very busy pollinating for several hours so the chances of the seeds reproducing the same colour are fairly remote. Just in case though I'm going to save the seed capsule and see what I get next year. Who knows I might be lucky.