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Re: Poppies

>I read with interest a little while ago on this list about poppies and
>their culture.  Someone had mentioned that a friend had bought poppy seeds
>from the grocery and grew some that way.  I now have a jar.  I live in zone
>5.  Should I sow these seeds now or wait until spring?  ......or
>scatter them about the garden bed?

Scatter them in the garden now.   They resent being transplanted.

>I also read where you cannot legally grow opium poppies, yet I see them
>often in gardening magazines in featured gardens and I see where T&M offers
>them.  I would love to get these seeds as I think those poppies are
>gorgeous.  Has anyone had a negative experience growing these?

This is one of those questions that, it is TECHNICALLY illegal in most
cases, I wouldn't worry about it.   For the past 40 years I have been
growing  a pretty double pink P. somniferun that my grandmother had, and I
have never had a problem.  Just as long as you don't go out there
collecting the sap from the pods.....

>One last question (please bear with me!):  I would like to try and grow
>oriental poppies (the true perennial type) from seed, yet I've read where
>they will not come true from seed and will have misshapen blooms.  Is this
>true in anyone's experience?

Not in my experience.

 I don't want to pay a lot of money per plant,
>yet I don't see these offered in catalogs inexpensively nor do I see seed
>packets of individual types -- only a mixture.  What's up with these?

Weren't some of the varieties offered by T&M?

>What's the best method of propagation?

For me, by division.


Don Martinson
dmartin@cdmas.crc.fmlh.edu
>Mucho gracias to all advisors!!
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