Description
Beautiful summer flowers that brighten up any garden. Open pollinated blend of single and double flowered plants. Profuse bloom July to early August. Monocarpic. Opium poppies must be one of the oldest species mankind has cultivated. Once a sacred plant giving comforting pain relief that no other analgesic can offer to become much abused in the wrong hands like many of nature’s gifts.
- Seed Count: 150-200
- Collection Date: August 2022
- Hardiness Zone: annual
- Height x Width Germination test type: hand sort
- Family: Papaveraceae
How to germinate Papaver somniferum seeds:
Best sown where they will be grown as they resent transplanting unless you really know what you are doing. If you do grow in situ, don’t thin until the last frost as you will have a certain amount of winter kill. Dense heavy soils have a higher winter kill rate than loamy, well draining soils. Depending on your site and zone, the display could start in late May.
