More poppies!

This is my first year for growing poppies and I LOVE them.Somniflorum,Shirley and various ones from the poppy co-op.Can I share? Nothing special,but still pretty

Some more..

pretty in pink

one more

That 'Pretty in Pink" is a beauty too. I just found some today I hadn't seen before. Poppies are my favorites.

This is my entry. So easy. Throw the seed on the ground in March and they produce such lovely flowers.

Oh My! They look like peonies! Lovely! I am definitely setting aside a BIG section of my garden for them next year.

OFG, they are beauties.An unusual magenta shade, very nice.

This is an annual poppy I grow every year. It is huge (6") and very full and heavy:

I grow this poppy at the office - It stops traffic!

Poppy - One More!

Please tell me how you started your poppies. They're beautiful. This was my first year for poppies (from seed) and not one grew. I planted many. Possibly I waited to long to start them. Do they need cool weather to germinate? I didn't start them indoors either as I do most of my seedlings because I read theat they don't transplant well.

Don't know about weather conditions in Chicago area, but here in Western Washington I just strew them on the ground in a bare area and wait to see what happens. If they don't germinate this season they probably will next year. After that they re-seed themselves nicely, often too nicely.

I'm in Eastern Washington and I always keep my seed in the freezer until March. Then I sprinkle out where I want them in the spring. I think the birds eat them if I sprinkle out too soon.

Once I grow them in an area, they always come up every year. These poppies were from last year - I lost the seeds somehow but this year tons have come up:

I will definately try again next year. I think I should have started them earlier than I did. It was aready fairly warm here and I think they need to be started in early spring. Maybe with all the seed I put out I will get some next year.

I purchased most of my seed from Park and everything else I planted came up so I have to believe it was my error and not the seed.

thanks for your input all.

golgi--wonderful poppies--I love them, too, but can't get them to grow here---they are still little starts in the ground, and most didn't bother to do a thing...wonder what I'm doing wrong...any idea?

Thanks for your pics--everybody's poppies are so pretty. t.

I lived in the Seattle area and found the annual poppies super easy to grow. In fact, as mentioned above, if you planted them once you had them forever. Here in Ohio they are much more difficult to get going and maintain, in my experience.

I am particularly fond of the Shirley double poppies but after a few years of self-seeding they seem to revert to mostly solid reds. Has anyone else experienced this?