Re: Plantings for Oriental Poppies
Here is the site for Heronswood http://www.heronswood.com/
Pottsey
zone5, OH
----- Original Message -----
From: Saxton, Susan <SSaxton@Schwabe.com>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 1:29 PM
Subject: RE: Plantings for Oriental Poppies
> 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!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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