Growing Poppies for The Sparkling Multi-coloured Organic Flowers!
Growing Poppies and creating your organic flower borders with Papaver Rhoeas! We had once a poppy plant, a red poppy in the year 2005. We found it difficult to manage as the flowers were easily gone with the strong wind and the heavy rain. Since then, growing poppy plants became a challenge to me. Two years ago, I was tempted to grow poppies again. So, we had grown California poppies (Slaapmutsje in Dutch and á fleur simple in French) successfully from the flower seeds. We had enjoyed the bright yellow orange medium size flowers sparkled everywhere in our summer garden that year. It was a great surprise! California poppies are delicate flowers that do not like to be transplanted. If you need some beautiful sparkling orange flowers in your garden, you may consider adding some Eschscholzia Californica into your flower garden plans. Let's learn how to grow brilliant poppies indoors and outdoors! This year we found a different type of Papaver Rhoeas seeds (Coquelicot in French) in one of the local small village flower seeds supplier. I did not realise that they were in a mix of multi-coloured flowers until I met them. Papaver Rhoeas is easy to manage. A moist and well drainage ground is all they need; they need no fertilizers.
You can grow them indoors, in a greenhouse, or outdoors in your container garden; or flower garden beds and flower borders. We started our young poppy plants in an earth flower pot in early spring. They were placed in our spray free fresh-air green house. Poppy plants love sandy loam soil. They simply love cool and moist earth. Poppy flowers love a sunny place in your garden. They will bloom continuously from late Spring to late Autumn. They will make the easy and long succession of beautiful flowers in your fall garden. If you are interested to grow them in containers; stake them when they are tall. In this way, they will grow strong and stand right up. I discovered that, no matter how small is the flower pot, they will still produce the same size of flowers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the young plants are strong enough to handle; you may transfer them to their individual flower pot. The red poppy, white poppy, pink poppy and shining orange poppy were charming, elegant, and glamorous. They were waiting for their handsome dance partners. When the temperature went higher, I transferred all of them outdoors to gain their direct sunlight. Poppy plant's average height is about 70 cm. Although under soft weather; the flower can only stay to maximum 3 days. However, you will not notice; as they have rich flowers that; will follow almost immediate when one is drop. Papaver Rhoeas can adapt easily to new environment. A trellis will help them to stand stronger against the wind. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the autumn began, all the poppy flower petals were chilled by the cold wind and heavy non-stop rain. I removed their pots and moved them to the Southern border of our flower bed, next to our backyard goldfish pond. We had a great joy from all the amazing flowers! Poppies are not only for the wildflowers plugs or a wild flower garden, they definitely deserve a place in your flower borders. Start growing poppies and enjoy the non-stop blooming, sweet and charming organic flowers!
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