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Anyone know what these are called please? I have some growing and would love to plant more.

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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Welsh Poppies. If you've got them, just leave them be and you will have more next year. Probably lots more!
    I love them, they pop up all over my garden, yellow like yours, but also orange and yellow with an orange flush. So cheerful with the ferny leaves :)
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I have spent many an hour digging them up for someone. They are beautiful and I agree with @Buttercupdays probably lots more.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • officehgo_P6bpofficehgo_P6bp Posts: 7
    Thank you both, I think they are so bright and cheerful, great to know if I leave them be they will spread.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Wait until the seed heads go brown, then sprinkle the seed where you want them.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Love 'em! I had one appear a few years ago, now the shady border has loads, and it really brightens it up. They all started off yellow, about ⅔ are now orange - I'm happy with that! 😁
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Not actually poppies by the way. They are Meconopsis cambrica.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2023
    Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae.

    The yellow Welsh poppy is called Papaver cambricum...according to Wiki and RHS

    syn  Meconopsis cambrica...or has it again been changed??????

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_cambricum

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/details?plantid=1268




    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • seacrowsseacrows Posts: 234
    We have these. Every so often I sow seeds of a colour mix (yellow, orange, red/dark orange). Every time I get yellow, no other colour! Is yellow the original varient and hardier than the other colours, or am I just unlucky?
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I scattered hundreds of seeds. One came up. I left it, this year I have three 🙂. I'm hardly overwhelmed with them, but heading in the right direction.



    Used to be Mecanopsis cambrica, but is now Papaver cambricum (I think it's a fairly recent change).
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I gathered seed from a plant along a verge near me, and they're all orange.
    I could do with a few yellows, so I'll keep a look out for those when they start getting seed  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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