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Mystery plant, help needed please!

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  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    Can I tag another question onto this thread please?

    Years ago my mum (helpfully) scattered some seed to help me to fill the gaps in my new garden, she said they were "California poppies" and I have been weeding them out for the past 18 years.

    The chat of welsh poppies on this thread and others has got me thinking about the ID of mine.

    Here's one I missed, it's at the side of the house behind a stack of garden chairs image

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    Can anyone confirm my suspicions?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    In my limited experience of Californian and Welsh poppies, that looks Welsh to me.  Californian are more orangey yellow with blue-green leaves.  The Californian also have long pointy seedheads, if I remember correctly.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Yes, Welsh, californian poppies have different leaves from that



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    Thanks Dove and nut.  They are sneaky little beggars and seed anywhere and everywhere. ?

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Not in my garden they don't. image

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    You're welcome to mine pp image

    They can be a pain in the posterior on my tiny plot. 

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