Flowers are a beautiful soft creamsicle orange, and last only a day. Flowering begins with a flush in June and then persists, one or two ...Read Moreflowers at a time, into late fall. I shear plants back when the accumulating seedpods start looking messy. Foliage sometimes also needs a cutback in late summer if it gets lanky/ragged.
Hardy to Z4.
This is 18-24" tall in bloom, most of which is wiry flower stem.
I've read that this makes a good (though not longlasting) cut flower if cut when the bud is just showing color and the cut ends of the stems are dipped in boiling water---as for any poppy.
Adaptable from full sun to part shade. This is a reliable self-sower, not excessively aggressive in its self-sowing. There are strains with single flowers as well as the one with double flowers.
The correct name may be Papaver rupifragum var. atlanticum. There are numerous synonyms for this species. A staff horticulturist at the Montreal Botanic Gardens has suggested that it's actually Papaver nordhagenianum ssp. islandicum, or is it P. radiatum ssp radiatum (Arctic poppy)? I just call it "that cute little orange poppy."
After a touch and go experience trying to sprout the seeds in a greenhouse (long story short - i had to REMOVE them from the greenhouse, ...Read Morebecause it was far too hot in the greenhouse and the seedlings were burning up), i was able to place the six-pack plastic pots in my garden to start the seeds. In february they sprouted, along with the ones i planted directly in the soil in my garden. My garden has very sandy soil with some added compost. Every one of the saved greenhouse sprouts is now blooming and the ones i planted directly in the soil are blooming. 30" stems with delicate orange-julius looking double ruffled blooms floating above the sturdy stems. I'm so happy these have done so well in FULL sun and half sun (two different areas they are planted in), and I'm hoping that these will reseed abundantly, as i'd like them to fill my front borders in my garden.
I am growing this plant in sandy soil between two houses! It only gets sun in the morning and afternoon, but I have found that it likes ...Read Morethis. I have the plant elsewhere in full sun and it doesn't seem to be as happy.
These reseed, but not too agressively, and grow anywhere I scatter the seeds. Sun to part shade, poor soil, moderate to little water. The...Read Morey start blooming in May and keep going most of the summer. The foliage stays evergreen and looks nice all year.
I love this plant. It just blooms and blooms. If the orange color turns you off, plant it with some blue forget-me-nots. Oddly enough, mi...Read Morene isn't in full sun, but it still thrives for some reason. It is in a half sun spot and is very, very happy. It does produce a lot of seeds, but I cut them off and throw them out whenever I remember to. I save some as well and have found they make a nice "instant" present for garden visitors. Since they are always in bloom, lots of folks tend to see them and comment.
To collect seed, poppy pods need to be very dry, or they'll rot in storage. It seems that almost as soon as the pods get to just th...Read Moree right, crispy brown stage to collect them for their seed, that they are emptied, so a daily patrol is in order.
All through the summer, there are many opportunities to play orange, blue and cream against each other, but Louise Beebe Wilder, in Adventures in My Garden and Rock Garden, wrote that "...one of the loveliest things in all my garden experience..." [was P. rupifragum (she used that interchangeably with P. atlanticum) in orange blooming with blues like]...seas of [blue] Flax [Linum perenne]...clumps of pale blue Iris...dim peach-leafed Bellflowers...[with white] Madonna Lilies..."
She cautions to keep this freely self-sowing beauty away from tiny delicacies in the rock garden.
Transplant seedlings with as little as 4 leaves if possible, because it gets more difficult the bigger its tap root.
Just threw a box of wildflower seeds in my garden and poppies are growing everywhere. I really like the foliage , kinda fuzzy. Does any...Read Moreone know how to collect the seeds on this one ?
I'd give this plant a negative because plants I bought were mislabeled and I thought this plant would be something else.... but in and ...Read Moreof itself its an okay plant. I am not a fan of orange so that also detracts (for me) from its merits but for other reasons it is a fine plant.... blue green foliage with tissue papery (smaller than oriental poppies) blooms in a "soft" orange.... (not salmon but not rusty or dayglow orange either sort of a orange juice orange.....)..... plants don't seem to last long in the vase.... easy to grow and easy to grow from seed.... will bloom in the second year.....
This perennial poppy is easy to sow and very reliable. It is also continuous blooming untill late summer even early autumn, special if yo...Read Moreu remove the spent flowers. Very pretty...blooms are elegant waving on 60 cm stems and are 9 cm across. Even in a rainy summer they perform well..don't get floppy at all.
Mind though during deadheading....dirt-marks of its sap cannot be washed away in the laundry..maybe a potential dye plant..?
Easy to grow from seed. It also self-sows. This perennial poppy blooms the first year if started early indoors. Mine bloomed off and o...Read Moren for most of the summer.
Flowers are a beautiful soft creamsicle orange, and last only a day. Flowering begins with a flush in June and then persists, one or two ...Read More
After a touch and go experience trying to sprout the seeds in a greenhouse (long story short - i had to REMOVE them from the greenhouse, ...Read More
I am growing this plant in sandy soil between two houses! It only gets sun in the morning and afternoon, but I have found that it likes ...Read More
These reseed, but not too agressively, and grow anywhere I scatter the seeds. Sun to part shade, poor soil, moderate to little water. The...Read More
I love this plant. It just blooms and blooms. If the orange color turns you off, plant it with some blue forget-me-nots. Oddly enough, mi...Read More
To collect seed, poppy pods need to be very dry, or they'll rot in storage. It seems that almost as soon as the pods get to just th...Read More
Just threw a box of wildflower seeds in my garden and poppies are growing everywhere. I really like the foliage , kinda fuzzy. Does any...Read More
I'd give this plant a negative because plants I bought were mislabeled and I thought this plant would be something else.... but in and ...Read More
This perennial poppy is easy to sow and very reliable. It is also continuous blooming untill late summer even early autumn, special if yo...Read More
One of the easiest to grow here.Constant flush of bloom all summer.
Easy to grow from seed. It also self-sows. This perennial poppy blooms the first year if started early indoors. Mine bloomed off and o...Read More