RE: Plantings for Orienetal Poppies
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Plantings for Orienetal Poppies
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:25:32 -0700
Your wildflower poppy is probably an annual. Annual poppies reseed freely,
but more importantly, it is extremely easy to save the seed. Just let the
flower mature into a pod and wait until it shakes like a baby's rattle. But
no longer or it will burst and spread the seed itself.
Spread the seed just before last frost in your area in the spring. They
like a little chilling before germination.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James & Donna Davis [d*@intop.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 7:37 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 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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