Annuals: Does anyone grow POPPIES ?, 0 by cindyeo

cindyeo wrote:
This is a little late, but I\'ll add my 2 cents. I have grown the California poppies from seed and yes, they do reseed year after year, blooming in the middle of the summer.
A few years ago, my garden club was designing a float for our town\'s 4th of July parade, theme was classic movies so we chose the Wizard of Oz poppy scene. We all planted the red poppy seeds in pots in mid April, and prayed! Low and behold, most of them were blooming on the 4th of July! After the parade I did bring the pots back to my garden to finish enjoying the blooms and I put the pots in the middle of my garden, hoping they would drop seeds, and after the blooms were spent and seeds were ripe I put the cut stalks and laid them down on the ground in my garden, but I never did get any red poppies from seeds. Here\'s a photo, the marigolds were the yellow brick road