Pale Purple Poppy Color Palette-133 (Premo)

Includes 4 Premo Sculpey Color Recipes: — Pale Purple — Purple Poppy — Poppy Stamens — Poppy Stem.

** This post is an introduction to one of our paid color palettes.

When we moved into our current house over 15 years ago, it was during the fall and most of the flowers were done their cycles, and the leaves were beginning to fall off the trees. So when Spring and Summer came along, it was a complete surprise to find all the different variety of flowers and bushes come into bloom.

One of the surprises was these purple poppies. The whole vegetable garden was full of them. Some were a darker purple, much like the color of the flower center in today’s photo. And the rest were a very pale purple.

At the time, I had never seen this type of poppy before… only being familiar with the red varieties and the pretty orange California poppies. Since then, though, I have seen even more varieties, including a frilly pink poppy that grows in my friend and neighbor Diane’s garden.

Oh, by the way, just like the Bee Made Columbine from the previous Columbine Bud Palette, our pale purple poppies somehow bonded with her frilly pink poppies and made fluffy pale purple-y pink babies. The bees had a bit of a trek to spread that pollen around, too. They had to fly from our backyard to the front, cross a very busy street, and then head down a few houses to Diane’s place, so they could buzz around in her garden… Amazing really!

Anyway, one year I thought I may never have another purple poppy in my garden again… some garden raider stole all the poppy heads, just leaving some crunchy dried out stems behind. We never did solve that mystery…

But low and behold, there must have been a few seeds left in the soil, because sure enough the following summer a few of these guys popped their heads out of the soil and slowly but surely began to propagate themselves again.

Nature is such an interesting thing… Ain’t it!?

Pale Purple is the softest, whitest purple shade of this poppy blossom. Purple Poppy is the darker dusty purple shade found in the centers of the petals, like it was brushed there with a paintbrush. Poppy Stamens is the creamy linen color of the pollen coated poppy stamens, surrounding the head like a fluffy fur collar. And Poppy Stem is a soft green of the poppy stem and poppy head, that draws your eyes in to the center of the poppy flower.

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