Your Complete Guide to Planting and Growing Poppies
Although they don’t bloom for long periods of time, poppies bring a delightful dose of color and a wild, freeform aesthetic to any garden or landscape.
These relatively easy-to-maintain wildflowers have many forms; there are roughly 100 species, including several hybrids such as Amazing Grey, the California poppy (eschscholzia calnifornica), and prickly poppy (argemone polyanthemos), which range in color from deep bold hues, like citrine orange and canary yellow, to softer shades, like creamy white and blush pink.
“Poppies are quintessential wildflowers with a loose, carefree spirit,” says horticulturist Kelly D. Norris, the author of New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden. “They make great cut flowers and support foraging pollinators, too.”
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Morning All! Great start to the thread. I actually started a thread yesterday for Memorial Day but it looks like it’s not getting traction. We must never forget the sacrifices of so many for our freedoms.
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We are on track for out best garden ever. I’ll have pictures once things start growing more.
We have a yard full of them; they bloom for a month or so, and are a sea of red. Also a few sports that are a lighter pink, or even white. A very few are spotted. I believe our bees will love them.
Yes, a week ago Thursday, I headed up to Rapid City, and picked up my hive. Normally, people mail order ‘package bees’—3 pounds of adult bees literally randomly vacuumed into boxes, with a caged unrelated queen added. Or they order & pick up a 4-frame ‘nuc’—nuclear hive—that is a half-size working hive.
I got neither: the local bee club leader, and semi-professional keeper had some extra full fledged working hives that were more than he could handle, and I bought one of those.
Last Friday & Saturday set new all time low temp records, which meant not being able to get the second brood chamber installed, as that would be too much extra work for them to keep warm. They are now fully set up, and working their little wings off with wild plum, apple, and chokecherry blossoms.
Naturally, those temps also froze the asparagus.
NOW, I can finally seed the main garden, and set up the irritation tank, pump, and hoses.