Weed or what? Can anyone identify this please.

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• bullfinch Posts: 692

  May 2019

  Maybe a poppy?

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• Patricia Ludwell Posts: 91

  May 2019

  It's huge in one part with no sign of a flower

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2019

  Papaver somniferum... the opium poppy ... just wait ... it’ll flower. 😊 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Patricia Ludwell Posts: 91

  May 2019

  Thanks. Don't know where it came from, are we allowed to grow it?  Would it have been in the wild flower seeds I.planted?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2019 edited May 2019

  Yes it’s a normal garden flower. They self seed around and pop up in gardens all over the place. There have been several new threads enquiring  about them in the past  few days. 
  
  There are double and single forms  and a range of shades https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/58799/Papaver-somniferum/Details
  
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Patricia Ludwell Posts: 91

  May 2019

  Sounds really interesting. Thank you guys

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