So many Poppies (Papavers) - NOT Puppies ;)

[sparrow100]

I love poppies too - but I only grow the varieties where I can eat the seeds. So my choices would be any of the somniferum or paeoniflorum.

I sowed and transplanted 50 poppies this year. The slugs left me 5. Grrrrrrrr.

[Bal]

I love poppies too - but I only grow the varieties where I can eat the seeds. So my choices would be any of the somniferum or paeoniflorum.

I sowed and transplanted 50 poppies this year. The slugs left me 5. Grrrrrrrr.

I thought poppies didn't like to be disturbed. Could I try sowing them in trays first then ?

[Scarlet]

I thought poppies didn't like to be disturbed. Could I try sowing them in trays first then ?

I thought that too - ive always sown annual direct. Perrenials I've started off indoors.

[Scarlet]

Does anyone know if I sow several annual variety of poppies together will they cross pollinate?
I've never worried about crossing before, just collected the annuals and thrown them around but I would like to save some for the flower circle.

[Guest]

Does anyone know if I sow several annual variety of poppies together will they cross pollinate?
I've never worried about crossing before, just collected the annuals and thrown them around but I would like to save some for the flower circle.

If they are in the same poppy family, then yes.

[Scarlet]

Oh, bu@@er...that's a no go then! I've loads of self seeded ones that pop up and I'm not pulling them out

[Gillykat]

I had what I think is an Opium Poppy just appear on the plot last year - absolutely beautiful. I left the last few flowers to set seed in the autumn so hopefully it'll spread.
My flower bed was a riot of colour with Californian Poppies and a huge hit with the insects so they'll be in again this year.

Still trying to grow Welsh Poppies though Got some seed last year and nowt! Beginning to think I may need to beg a couple of young seedlings from someone with them in their garden and transplant them to the plot. Ironically, before he met me, Neil had a bag of Welsh Poppy seeds and scattered handfuls of them all over the place on a walk home from the pub one night...and within a year the whole street was a blaze of yellow!!! In fact, when I first moved in I actually cursed them for being so prolific and taking over my tiny front garden! Now I want them on the allotment just for Neil and I cannot get them to grow! Perhaps I may get a surprise or two once the warmer weather arrives.

But yeah, I think you should GROW THEM ALL They're such beautiful but fleeting flowers that you need a few to last all the way through summer.

[Madasafish]

My bees love opium poppies...

[boatsman]

Oriental poppies are lovely. Welsh poppies do well if they are mulched with laverbread.

[Scarlet]

I've just sown some oriental poppies - coral coloured. I think I should have sown them in Autumn.

[veggiechicken]

One year on..........

Here I am, going through my flower seeds again and embarrassed to say that I didn't sow any poppies last year, apart from some in a flower seed mix
I seem to have even more than last year too
How did your poppies grow? Any more advice to a hopeless poppy grower - apart from take the seeds out of the packets and sow them

[Small pumpkin]

Well don't be shy VC...... Tell use what other varieties you've got. To be honest last years list is fairly impressive. I found your list, just in case you forgot

Anyone know anything about poppies?

I've been going through my flower seeds, to decide which to grow next year.
I lurve Poppies - so bright and cheerful - but there are so many different types that I don't know which to sow

Here are some :-

Icelandic - perennial
Orientale - perennial
Spanish (Rupifragum) - perennial
Welsh (Cambricum) aka Meconopsis Cambrica - perennial
Bracteatum - perennial

Californian (Eschscholzia californica) - annual
Shirley & Flanders (Rhoeas) - annual
Somniferum (Opium) - annual
Paeoniflorum aka Somniferum var. Paeoniflorum - annual
Laciniatum (sub type of Somniferum) - annual
Commutatum (Ladybird) - annual
Glaucum (Tulip poppy) - annual


Please tell me which ones you grow and recommend. Any tips appreciated.
Thanks

Here I am, going through my flower seeds again and embarrassed to say that I didn't sow any poppies last year, apart from some in a flower seed mix
I seem to have even more than last year too
How did your poppies grow? Any more advice to a hopeless poppy grower - apart from take the seeds out of the packets and sow them

I love Poppy's. But I only grow 2 varieties. A pink and a purple, I don't know the variety because they are from seeds my Nan saved in 2010.
Never had a problem getting them to grow. They get treated the same as everything else. Sown in trays, pricked out into pots when big enough, when bigger moved outside to harden off and grow a bit more, planted out when big enough to cope with slug & vole attack.

[vixylix]

I'm not really a flower fan, but I love poppies!! I've only ever tried one unknown variety, but have a few to try next year. I just chuck them in some soil and leave them to it, then collect the seeds once they're dry. Simples

[Guest]

I did sow welsh ones last year and guess what.....................the little blighters done nuffin!
I have been through by seed box and found s/s opium poppy, field poppy and something that says bush poppy what ever that was and will bung/scatter them in the patch reserved as the meadow area sometime this week. There is a lot of seed so not fussed if quite a few rot.

I have bought hens and chicks to plant in the veg patch next year as I now have dry flower ideas running through my head. One day I will make my life easy

My advice. Find a space, bung 'em in whenever as I doubt you want to say the same again next year. Unless you want to make it an annual tradition

Edit: I did sow some bread seed poppies as well but they also decided not to play. I might as well throw those in the meadow patch

[veggiechicken]

Well don't be shy VC...... Tell use what other varieties you've got. To be honest last years list is fairly impressive. I found your list, just in case you forgot

Sorry to disappoint you, SP, but that's all I have I updated the list last night - but I have lots of varieties of some - if that makes it more impressive

Maybe, just maybe, I'll sow a different poppy in each of the ?30 beds and see what comes up. Or I'll throw all the seeds in a bag, mix them up and scatter the lot.