Re: Plantings for Oriental Poppies





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
05/03/99 11:15 AM

I have the same problem in my garden.  What to plant with my spring
alliums?  Right now those purple balls are blooming along with my roses and
foxgloves -- really early and really pretty!  Once the blooming is over the
leaves die and you're left with big gaping holes.

I second the suggestion of mums.  There's such an endless variety and they
stay so small until mid-summer and then they burst into growth.  Another
plant is monarda.  They don't start blooming for me until mid-summer on and
the tall stems provide support for the poppies.

By the way, if you let the seed pod mature on your poppies until they are
brown, the top opens like a salt shaker and you can snap it off the stem
and sprinkle it around the spots you'd like poppies for next year.  This
year I'm seeing them all over the place where the darn things reseeded
themselves (in with the hostas, by the driveway, the neighbor's yard,
etc.).  I have opium poppies and to me they are the showiest of the lot.
Big peony-like blooms that look remind me of scoops of sherbet.

Every picture I've seen where the English have used poppies, they seem to
have them planted mid-border where the front and rear plants end up filling
the gap.  They've used montbreia a lot, along with lots of roses.

Val in KY
zone 6a


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