This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Talkback: How to sort self-sown poppies
Jeff Wincek
Posts: 1
in Talkback
The poppies are lovely, but appear to be palaver somniferum, an annual, not the perennial oriental poppies. Save seeds of desirable plants for the next season, of course, but the plants themselves won't live after setting seed. Also, I should think allowing the undesirable plants to pollenate the desirable plants will cause one to lose the preferred color.
0
Posts
Papaver somniferum will self seed happily and if you have the pinky, mauve ones, they will be the same next year. You can dry the stems and seed heads for use in dried flower arrangements.