Experiment concluding - M. betonicifolia

Conclusion 1 - Meconopsis betonicifolia can be grown in Manitoba.

Yesterday's bud left me in anticipation of an open flower today.

Today it is opened, still krinkly, but open. Can't wait for the rest to see the colours. Two more will bloom shortly, but one I disbudded as part of the experimant. Just couldn't take any more in case they don't come back next year anyway.

One more shot for Pam.

LOLOLOLOL.......WAY TO GO ECHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS............it's a beauty and a true miracle to have that beauty bloom on the PRAIRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Ü :D

Hope you aren't having the weather we are........it's hot, humid and a strange wind is a blowin' (not good for poppies ;(. Under tornado warning again and this one has me worried. :S

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p.s...........first poster!!! ;D

Way to go!! That is so beautiful. I grew one when I lived in Seattle (found the plant at a local nursery) but couldn't bear to disbud it and it died after blooming. :^(

I have had no luck growing them in Ohio but I have read of a man who grows them successfully in steamy Virginia.

Did you start yours from seed? I want to hear all about it. LOL I refuse to give up on growing this beauty.

Yes, I started these from seed. They are a bit touchy as babies. I managed to get four plants to overwinter. I disbudded one. I'll leave one to go to seed, and see what happens next year.

Here we are for day two. Don't know how long the flowers will last and it is very windy here today with heavy rain coming again supposedly.

Wow, I am so impressed , blue poppies are extremely difficult. You deserve the Green Thumb award of the year. I couldn't even keep the plant alive a year. Congratulations, echoes!!!!

Well thank you for the compliment. I probably couldn't have done it without the non summer we had last year. Or as it was known around here "The summer that Wasn't" or "The Fourty-eight Hour Summer".

Way to go, echoes!! That's very impressive!!!
:) Donna

totally awesome. They are so beautiful, in a blue/grey & hosta garden. Realloy looks like a blue woodland garden.
Inanda

so lovely Brenda
great picture of the blue poppy

Thanks, Donna. Ginny, Wilma - I'm glad you enjoyed them. I hope they keep blooming for a few weeks. Yesterdays wind took the sails out of the first one. The second plant opened today.

What has been the heat/humidity temp there echoes?

It's about 31C and high humidity. Wouldn't you know it. And yesterdays wind was like a blast from a hot furnace all day. Thanks goodness the poppies are a bit sheltered from the south. They won't last long unless it cools off. Maybe I should put some ice cubes around them.

So you are around 98F to 100F (at least) then......I think you better dig out those ice cubes now! ;)

Great news Echoes, well done.They're the most beautiful (IMHO) and most difficult poppies to grow. Congratulations.