Re: California Poppies
- Subject: Re: California Poppies
- From: d* f*
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:52:28 -0700 (PDT)
Lorraine,
Refresh our collective memories as to your location
and current conditions... You garden outside Athens,
no? Has it been very warm and dry for months already?
If so, it may very well be that they are finished for
the year given the heat and lack of ground moisture.
Even in an irrigated garden with well drained friable
soil, in late spring heat, regularly above 75F/24C
they will start to go to seed and quit blooming this
time of year. In cooler locations such as
Berkeley/San Francisco, with some deadheading and
supplemental water they can be kept blooming all
summer. In England they are also treated as summer
blooming annuals, and can also be grown that way here
in California with summer water and not too much heat.
Checking the soil drainage, or lack of, and whether
anything is chewing on the roots are also all good
advice. I suspect that it is just the heat and having
let them set seed. To keep them blooming longer, I
usually give them a good haircut back to 6 inches
height after the first 6-8 weeks of bloom, and also
some light watering, and get another strong flush of
bloom. But then again, here in Berkeley it seldom
gets above 24C for more than an hour or two all spring
and summer, which is ideal for keeping them in bloom.
--- L Schmiege <schmiege32@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to stop what is happening to
> my California Poppies? They suddenly turn a sort of
> lime green, and in a few days flop over and die as
> if they can't get water or food. I changed
> locations and have the same problem in the new
> location.The stem of the plant looks fibrous and
> dry.
>
> Thank you.
>
> L. Schmiege
>
>
>
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