Poppies and Asiatic Lilies—Midsummer

This painting captures the midsummer garden in it’s iridescent glory. California poppies, Oriental poppies, corn poppies and pale lavender poppies from Monet’s garden* mingle with lavender, Dianthus, Platycodon, and molten Asiatic lilies.

*grown from seed collected from a compost pile at Giverny by a California plantsman and propagated