I have the oriental poppies in my garden pots (all pink except for one purple one!) But no red ones. If I want some for the 100 yrs remembrance, where it's the best place to buy? I have never seen a packet of seeds for them on their own.
Hi Jim, I think I shall but giving quite a large part of the meadow a good mowing well into the year next year. Those parts that have been mown for paths have lost a lost of the cowpasley and hogweed but I can see that lesser knapweed and geranium pratense and several other more desirables are still there. I have a right mess this year, not impressing me ot the insects except thousands of grasshoppers. Plenty of butterflies, dragonflies, bees, hoverflies etc around the rest of the garden though.
Several large skippers which we have rarely had here, they must be doing OK. No blues.
I have the oriental poppies in my garden pots (all pink except for one purple one!) But no red ones. If I want some for the 100 yrs remembrance, where it's the best place to buy? I have never seen a packet of seeds for them on their own.
Thompson & Morgan sell the wild red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) seeds
Well Ive purchased my poppy seeds, but I'm looking for ideas for plants to accompany the poppies, to both grow amongst them and maybe to hide the poppy foliage after they have flowered.
Thanks, maybe I ought to introduce some blue into the equation, then I will gave a red, white and blue display for the WW1 centenary. Perhaps blue cornflowers?
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I have the oriental poppies in my garden pots (all pink except for one purple one!) But no red ones. If I want some for the 100 yrs remembrance, where it's the best place to buy? I have never seen a packet of seeds for them on their own.
Hi Jim, I think I shall but giving quite a large part of the meadow a good mowing well into the year next year. Those parts that have been mown for paths have lost a lost of the cowpasley and hogweed but I can see that lesser knapweed and geranium pratense and several other more desirables are still there. I have a right mess this year, not impressing me ot the insects except thousands of grasshoppers. Plenty of butterflies, dragonflies, bees, hoverflies etc around the rest of the garden though.
Several large skippers which we have rarely had here, they must be doing OK. No blues.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thompson & Morgan sell the wild red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) seeds
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-seeds/poppy-seeds/papaver-rhoeas-flanders/6553TM
So do Crocus...
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/papaver-rhoeas/classid.1000000958/
Well Ive purchased my poppy seeds, but I'm looking for ideas for plants to accompany the poppies, to both grow amongst them and maybe to hide the poppy foliage after they have flowered.
Any suggestions please?
Dog daisies go well with poppies
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks, maybe I ought to introduce some blue into the equation, then I will gave a red, white and blue display for the WW1 centenary. Perhaps blue cornflowers?
Cornflowers would mix nicely
In the sticks near Peterborough
can i plant poppy seeds now
Autumn would be better, to flower next summer. I think the seeds need winter cold to germinate.