Some crop, and a fair bit of playing to bring out the weird colouring, maybe too much. Did some dodging in upper left to eliminate some bits of black pots - really pretty lame.
Well, I think I was going for pastel, but got carried away with all the colours that showed up in the red on its own (varying only brightness and contrast and degree of saturation) and then spent too long on the dodging. Merde.
Hmmmm this is a red poppy.. Thought it might of been an orange one. Have u seen the orange ones? Anyhow--agree perhaps this one could use a little pizazz.