Re: was Mystery Plant now Papaver Somniferum
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: was Mystery Plant now Papaver Somniferum
- From: "* &* C* <t*@haywood.main.nc.us>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:21:43 -0400
So are you saying that these are hard to start from seed? I was planning
on getting the seed from the pods and growing lots more next year.
-----Original Message-----
From: Diana L. Politika <diana@olympus.net>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: was airhead now Mystery plant
>>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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