Re: Plantings for Orienetal Poppies

Jerry

I ordered 7 orienetal poppies this year from Springhill and will have to
wait and see if they will come up and then survive the season.  the
catalog says they will grow 30 to 36" high, so I'll have to wait and
think about what to plant with them,   but last fall I bought one of
those cans of wild flowers at Wal-Marts and sowed them in my flower bed
just for giggles  .  I think I got about 10 or 12 plants from that one
can, of course there  could have been more, but when I weeded that bed,
I probable pulled up several of them not knowing the differance between
the flower and the weed.
The point I trying to make is that 5 or 6 of the plants were poppies
(the tiny poppies) they ranged from  say 8 to 18 in. high, I have been
watching these to see just what they were gonna do  and today one of
them has a bloom on it.   I guess I paid maybe  $5.00 for the can, and
today I got my $5.00 worth    just that one poppie was  worth it.   It's
red, about the size of a cup and it's blooming in a large clump of white
daisy.  So come fall I'm gonna buy another can of wild flower seed   and
several packs of poppy seed.
So as for me I'm gonna buy more daisy.  do you know if poppies drop
their seed.  "I hope so"    because I'm hooked.
any information about Poppies that you can pass along will be
appreciated.   This my first time to do poppies.  I hope I don't kill
them trying to take care of them.

Donna in NE Mississippi   (zone 7)

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