some would call this a weed

[Seahorse]

I love poppies and even plant them on purpose (in my garden though).

[MrsC]

Oh no they're not a weed in my books, I have some just popping out at the moment in my garden. I love them

[Incy]

What a philistine! Wish I had poppies as weeds.
Actually I do get some pretty weeds and have to admit to not pulling everything up all the time as I like the look of them and the bees seem to like them too

[Herbie]

I think they are beautiful, wouldn't pull them up as a weed. I have just sown some for next year

[coreopsis]

Not all over the place but it would be nice to have a neat clump or 2 somewhere in the garden

[rana]

In Afghanistan it is a valuable crop................

[lainey lou]

I think they are gorgeous, keep them!

[di]

We've got loads too!I never understand the people that moan & say they throw their seed everywhere...yes they do,but what a beautiful freebie flower to have interspersed around your veg!!!....and if you don't like them????Well what an easy weed to pull up!!

[bubblewrap]

My site rep would have me rip all these out. Would you?

Opium poppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Never Never Never My lottie & garden have lots of them a friend says my garden looks like plantation.
I collect the seeds & scatter them about (guerrilla gardening)
See my post(23) on Gurrilla Gardening thread.
I still have a jam jar of seeds from last year.

[valmarg]

In Afghanistan it is a valuable crop................

The difficult bit, I understand, is changing it from poppy sap to opium, etc.

valmarg

[helanuels]

My poppy seeds arrived a couple of weeks ago. I decided to buy lady bird and wild flanders... I got them in memory of my grandad and great uncle and I am very excited. I think that the flowers are so beautful and even the pods have their own beauty. When we were little it was our job to give them a little shake to try and empty the pods while they were still attched and see who could get the most seed. (The grown-up's way of controlling the spread.) I'm going to do mine in pots. I say keep them! They are so very pretty! Hx

[bubblewrap]

The difficult bit, I understand, is changing it from poppy sap to opium, etc.

valmarg

The sap from the seed pods is opium.
To refine it to Codeine, Morphine or Heroin is not easy.

[Snadger]

And one of mine, growing in a hole in my compost bin/strawberry planter, which has a courgette stuck on the the top.
Once my beans are ready for transplanting I might pull it out and stick the frenchies in the holes!

[Two_Sheds]

The sap from the seed pods is opium.

Homemade poppy tea? It's meant to taste nasty (bitter). The seeds also contain very tiny quantities of opium don't they?

[jackie j]

Some poppys I love these being one of them, I have just planted black poppies that lynda66 sent me, I have loads of the yellow and orange ones and am saving the seeds, I pull them up but they keep coming up year after year. My MIL has a blue one its gorgeous.