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Re: Hi, introduction + question (fwd)

I haven't grown P. rhoes but with other plants I've found it best to remove
off color flowers as soon as you can identify them, preventing them from
pollinating with the desired plants. This way, you should  get fewer and
fewer of the off colors every year, eventually purifying the strain.
Theoretically.

>I'm wondering about something, though: When you have plants with various
>coloured flowers (sown a "mixed collection"), like papaver rhoes "Shirley" -
>If I mark the plants now when they are in bloom, and save the seeds from the
>white or pink ones, can I expect the same colour as the mother plant from
>the seedlings, or will the seeds I collect have mixed colours too??
>I have places in my garden that would be nice to fill out with poppies, but
>I don't want yellow or red poppies mixed with the pink/white/blue shades I
>have there!!!
>
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