Are they tough?

my 2nd encounter with poppee is one year later now, May 05, the spring in Netherlands.

In front of my neighbour house, less then a feet wide long planting strip in front of the windows have survive poppee of several colors for 2 months since the early spring. Despite any weather, the rice paper like pedals stay strong with the seemingly minimum connection with the stem.

Last week, I greedily pluck one of them to delights myself for my Birthday, BUT only to discover that the pedals could never hold up themself once the stems are disconnected from the roots, they fell.........although they had withstood the crazy weather of April in Netherlands.

poppee spring dessau