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Poppy problem
Parthena
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For the first time this year I've grown poppies from seed given me by a friend. However, from early on the lower leaves became pale and mottled, almost dusty looking. What may have caused this? Is it a disease and ought I to pull them up and destroy them?
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If they are annual poppies that is what happens usually towards the end of the flowering season. Cut them down leaving a couple of nice ripe seed pods to use for seeds for next year collect them and then pull them up.
I get some lovely annual ones appear but they do look a mess this time of year.
My Oriental poppies were very early this year - had one bloom in January then frost got the next one then the rest flowered and they were all over by June!
The best Poppy i grew this year for good sturdy stems and lush green leaves are 'Ladybird'..second best are 'Victoria Cross'. Oriental poppy 'white, seem to suffer from dying lower leaves even before they flower. As i grow them in between smaller flowers its not so much an eyesore but i just pull off any unsightly brown leaves and the plant seems to thrive anyway. You mention 'dust' which would suggest mildew but, so far i have never come across that before.
Hollie, get them before they fall or you'll have a garden full next year lol
Thanks everyone for your replies. I feel much better about my poppies now. Hollie hock, I'm having the same thing happen with mine, the wind is playing havoc on them!