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Poppies self-seeded wonderful
I have got some beautiful huge poppies in wild uncultivated areas in the garden (got plenty of those). Some are normal poppy number of petals, some the peony type. All the same colour, a magenta. No idea where they came from, but i would love to have more next year. Would it be better to let them self seed or try and colect some, or a bit of both? I have not been very sucessful in seed collecting before.
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I would do both. to collect them, wait until the heads go brown then collect the seeds in a paper bag or envelope. Sow in spring.
These are the pale green-leaf ones, 5 - 6ft tall, with enormous flowers? I have them everywhere and have labelled a few with their flower colour as someone's asked for seeds. I view them as welcome weeds - I leave them if they're not in the way as they're pretty and the bumblebees love them.
Pretty innocuous as weeds go but if you don't want them to set seed don't forget to pull them up when they've finished flowering otherwise they'll have thousands of babies!
I'd agree with hogweed. Save and sow. Fun shaking them around the garden out of mother Nature's pepper pot.