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RE: Thanks: Hi, introduction + question (poppies)

Hello, Alan - thanks to you and the others that answered.

Seems there'll be some exiting gardening years ahead regarding colour,
I brought with me 5 siberian poppies, got 3 mecanopsis betonicifolia this
year, and plan to sow 2 other mecanopsis bet. varieties next year (or
rather, I plan to sow them later this autumn and leave them outside to get
properly chilled.)
I have different P. Rhoeas, a P. bracteatum, a P. Orientale, and I stumbled
upon a very white variety I'm not sure of this summer (could be P.
argemone)- only ONE flower on ONE stem, not so short as siberica, and very
thin flower petals greyish-green foliage...

...so it's great if they don't hybridize easily; or I will have pink or
yellow mecanopsis betonicifolia...

I'll try to get hold of the book, and will look into more info on
pollination too.

Thanks,
Iril

PS: any experience with the Glaucium Flavum? Is it easy to grow?

---heavy snip---
> There are poppies and poppies, they are mostly no related
> and won't hybridise, I have grown Papaver Somnifera, the opium poppy,
> for many years, and found that they are very reluctant to hybridise with
> their own sort, but you do get slow colour mutations.There are also the
> meconopsis, cambrica(welsh) and betonicifolia (tibetan).In all there are
> some 70 different poppies.
> I do recommend the article in Geoffrey Smith's World of Flowers  if you
> can get hold of a copy (the book of a television series, BBC books 1984
> ISBN 0 563 21104 0)
>
> --
> Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
>
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