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question about Poppys
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casi 5 (
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Tue, Jun 8, 10 at 20:58
| What are you supposed to do with poppys after they are finished blooming? Their foliage is a mess and they have toppled over from all the rain. Where are the seeds and how do spread them? |
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| That's exactly why I don't grow Oriental poppies. I grow annual Papaver rhoeas, Corn poppies, and they bloom for a very long time. As they finish, or crowd perennials, I pull them out, scatter seed and wait until next year. |
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| Yes, cut back the foliage; new will grow by the end of the summer. The seeds are in the pods left after the flowers bloom, and they do have to be left until ripe if you want to harvest seeds. I know what laceyvail means, but I just have to have those fabulous flowers, even for their short blooming period. |
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| I read on another posting what I should have done. Evidently you are supposed to plant a lower type flower alongside which doesn't mind the heavy poppy leaves. Then when the leaves dry up, the other flower emerges. I just remember last year, the leaves were yellowed and messy...messier than they are right now. I may move them to their own private bed. How do I know when the seeds pods are ripe? |
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| They dry out and little windows open up just under the cap. The seeds will shake out like a salt shaker. |
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| Why do my poppy buds dry up before they open? To wet, to dry? |
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| Any ideas what flowers would be good to plant beside them? Mine are so heavy they would shade out any plant I would put there. By the time the leaves yellow, it is mid summer and too late for anything to take off. I had to move my Shasta Daisies I thought would work because they couldn't get any sun under the leaves. |
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| You can cut oriental poppies back to the ground as soon as they finish blooming. They will rapidly releaf with a small rosette of clean foliage that will remain in place until fall (or longer, depending on location). You don't reap the benefits of any seed from this method but how many seedling poppies does one want or need?? Many other spreading or rambling type perennials can fill in the gaps left by big poppies - cranesbills/hardy geraniums are a good choice - or you could plant an annual to fill the temporary hole. |
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| I wonder if it's a zone thing about cutting them down and getting a new flush of rosettes. I did that one year and they didn't come back very strong at all. Some disappeared completely. It's taken a couple years since then for that patch to get back to its original glory. I won't cut mine down again, but I did plant a Geranium Rozanne to fill out the area as the foliage dies back. |
RE: question about Poppys
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| I cut the foliage back when it turns brown, which is almost immediately after they bloom. I don't get any new growth until the fall. Totally Confused |
transplanting poppies
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| why is this so hard. There were a ton of the bigger type poppies growing, (but they were small plants at the time, maybe couple inches high) so I dug them out, planted them, and they all withered within 4 days or so and dried up. I planted some outside, and some in my greenhouse, some in pots, etc. No success! What am I doing wrong. This is the bigger poppy with the big double flowers that haven't bloomed yet. Not the spring kind that blooms early in Wis. |
RE: question about Poppys
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| Oriental poppies resent being moved because of their taproot; they also resent being moved when actively growing (which yours would be if they're not blooming yet - they're just starting here in Minnesota). If they have to be moved at all, might be more successful moving them late summer/early fall when they're no longer actively growing. In all the years I've had Oriental poppies, I've never gotten a seedling sprout up anywhere. I've even deliberately scattered ripe seeds. So, I've bought a few new ones over the years and just made sure they were planted in a spot where they'd never have to be moved - I don't mind the bare spots in the garden when the foliage has finally got to be cut down. What are those spring blooming orange poppies? Corn poppies? I have an ever expanding patch of those - they really self seed all over. Good thing I like them. |
RE: question about Poppys
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| ...'bigger poppy with the big double flowers ..' could be Papaver somniferum. They also grow a taproot and resent disturbance. |
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