RE: Plantings for Oriental Poppies
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Plantings for Oriental Poppies
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:29:03 -0700
Dan Hinkley is an internationally famous plantsman and owns Heronswood in
Washington State. I had the pleasure of seeing him at our local garden show
this year and he told us this "hint":
The large headed allium he leaves to mature in his garden and then spray
paints them red in the fall. People come running up to the sales office,
saying, they "simply must have that plant. What is it??" Is he "bad" or
what???!!! His whole catalogue is filled with this type of humor.
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!
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> From: lowery@teamzeon.com [l*@teamzeon.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 8:15 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Plantings for Oriental Poppies
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> Valerie Lowery@ZEON
> 05/03/99 11:15 AM
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Val in KY
> zone 6a
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