Re: was airhead now Mystery plant

Tim & Christa wrote:
> 
> I had a mystery plant.  It started growing in the front of my border and I
> liked the color of the foliage so I let it go.  I assumed it was a weed,
> but I figured I would wait and find out.  Well it turned out to be papaver
> somniferum.  I love it.  I don't love it in the front of my flower border,
> but we can't always pick these things.  Is it common to have these things
> show up from out of nowhere?  I haven't seen any others in the area.
> 
> Christa Ramey
> Zone 7
> Maggie Valley, NC

Hmmm....now where could that Opium Poppy have possible come from,
Officer?
Quick, run!  Save yourself!
Actually, the federal government would love to see this plant eradicted,
but it will be around for years and years.  It's the true poppy that
opium is derived from, but the seed is used liberally by bakers.
The origion of the plant in your front border could be from you running
off to work with a poppyseed bagel in hand.
I have a plastic bag full of this seed in my bedroom.  If I thought that
I could germinate it, I'd throw it all at the base of my sign by the
highway.  I've read that you should throw the seed in the snow.  But we
had no snow this year, so my seed languishes on the shelf.  Perhaps next
year.
Anyway, depending on just how much renegade blood you have coursing thru
your veins, you may wish to stay low key and move the plant away from
direct view of the public.  Or you could leave it be and stand your
ground against the DEA.

The Greenhouse Nursery
81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
Port Angeles, WA  98362
(360) 417-2664
Zone 8
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