We have a string of orange poppies growing along our gravel drive at the lakefront. They come back, with a few more, every year.
Isn't it a little early for Japanese beetles? I gave up on them. They make me sick when they clusterf***. Well, my second cousin farms for me and his mom too elderly to care for flowers. He said her red rose got them all over (red were the ones they bothered the least of mine; they like white, yellow, pink, light colors and other flowers).
My second cousin said he sprayed his mom's rose with Tide and they never bothered it again. I knew they sell some soap product for them but nobody thought it worked very well.
I'm hoping they won't be too bad this year. Here's my theory. The frost line went very deep this winter and didn't thaw until well into April or whenever. We shall see. Last year, we had so much rain starting about the time they come up to feed on grass until they emerge in June that they got drowned. They weren't bad at all. I've read lots and lots about them.