Re: was Mystery Plant now Papaver Somniferum -Reply

SUSAN SAXTON wrote:
> 
> The thing with poppies is, even if you throw
> out all your seed with abandon, in the worst
> case scenario you'd get one plant of one type
> (ha!) and that seed head alone will supply with
> with next year's seed.  They are so prolific.
> 
> >>> "Diana L. Politika"
> <diana@olympus.net> 06/03/98 06:43pm >>>
> Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure.  Being
> a poppy, I wouldn't
> think they would be hard to start, and I've seen
> my neighbor just fling
> about a bunch of seeds and she had hundreds.
> I guess that I like (and value) my seed so highly
> that I figure, in a
> warped sort of way, that if I don't sow it, I can't
> lose it.
> Beats me.  Let's see if there is any feedback
> from others, and if others
> say that it isn't too late, I'll go throw the seed
> out by the sign.
> 
> The Greenhouse Nursery
> 81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
> Port Angeles, WA  98362
> (360) 417-2664
> Zone 8
> 
> Tim & Christa wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
 Do the flowering end swell when the flower is finished? I don't see any
seed pods on my poppies. 
 Windy

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