I have tried and tried again with oriental poppies, and they always fizzle out on me. I love that papery bloom. Yours are gorgeous.

Very pretty. The red ones were my Dad's favorites, and I tried to get one to grow on his grave but it never came back. At home, he had a big clump of them that he was so proud of.

I love them. I love the color too, and I miss growing poppies. I'm so glad you kept yours!

I had forgotten how lovely oriental poppies are. After they have finished blooming do you cut yours down to renew the foliage?

Annette

Annette, I do nothing! They are in a sort of hidden area and I just let them die normally which they will do in hot weather. They are much too thick to inter-plant. In the fall, the new foliage comes back and gets about 6 inches before hard winter hits. Once you get these, you will have them forever. They are hard to transplant. I have given some to a neighbor but don't know if they made it or not. They have a long, carrot like root and it is almost impossible to dig without breaking it.

They spread rampantly not like my other orientals that I started from seeds. I can't see that they have spread at all! I have a white and a pink, Victoria Louise, I think.

love the color! would grow those here but we get so much rain they flop over. am trying to grow blue poppies for the first time from seed...heard that is difficult though.

Very pretty, Glenda. They look just like tissue paper. I love the bright red color.

Dahli22, you must send along a picture if your blue poppies take for you. I bet they'll be amazing.

MeMo

dahli22. It is difficult to even get them to germinate. I got one tiny plant and put it under the lights which I guess were to warm...killed the tiny little thing and I had waited 2 months or more for it to germinate. Only one from the packet of seeds............very tricky.