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Care For Oriental Poppies
Oriental poppies are hardy plants, and they do not need too much care, oriental poppies seem to prefer high mountain lands, sunny spots and well drained soils; they are usually as other poppy varieties, easy to grow, you just must pay attention to avoid water excess or areas where the soil keeps humid for long periods of time, or shaded areas where humidity tends to remain for too long, cause this may rotten their delicate roots.
If you are planning to decorate your garden with these beautiful plants, you should consider choosing a place where direct sunlight is constant. And if you want this special point to catch the attention of your neighbors and visitors, try to plant them in elevated terrace arrangements. It is important to prepare the soil, sterilizing it, may be good idea, and with this you can avoid weed development. It is also recommended to bathe the soil with boiling water a few hours before you are ready for planting the seeds, let it cool completely before you spread the seeds. Mid autumn is the right season to sow them. Remember the basic cares for Oriental poppies: Sun light, well-drained soils, sow them while weather is cool (since they are resistant to frost), and water them more often during summer, Once the seeds sprout, leave the plant grow freely, just paying attention to pests. If one appears, for instance fungus, just clean the plant with water and consider cleaning the land to give them more space so proper ventilation by itself will stop more fungus from appearing. Oriental poppies plants reach a height of about four feet. Flowers are bold on the large stem. Even about thirty blooms can appear on one plant, frost is needed for germination. Oriental poppies attract bees, birds, butterflies, ladybugs and other well-purposed insects.
Oriental poppy’s flowers are one of the shortest lived ones, something that is sad, because you will not be able to enjoy them for long, usually just a couple of days. There are lots of people who like and care a lot about the Oriental poppies, specially its pods, and that’s enough for them. For the ones that like something prettier and colorful, drying the flowers is another good option. Is not too complicated, you only have to be very delicate with the flowers during and after the process, following simple drying methods.
Oriental poppies bloom wonderfully, flowers are silky, bowl-shaped and they appear in the late spring. Flower colors are real varied, and suitable for all kind of tastes or personalities, among a wide variety of colors, we can find scarlet red, glowing orange, salmon pink, sparkling white and some bi-colored forms. Many of the flowers present inky-dark spots at the base of the petals and colorful stamens in the center. When petals shortly fall, the seedpod adds interest and contrast in gardens. You should know that these plants are also very easy to hybridize, especially this variety. Many nurseries in Europe are breeding new varieties; so new names along with colors, shapes and styles appear all the time, experiment with yours and, who knows? Perhaps you are able to get one that really matches your ideal.
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Super Giganthemums
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Our highly popular, seasonal Super Giganthemums are back in stock. We only have a limited supply of these popular poppy pods until the next drying season in August. These are the largest and most beautiful pods we have seen in a while.
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Poppy Information
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Want to know more about poppies? Then take a look at our poppies information pages.
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