Growing Poppies • From Seed to Flower 

This spring I have planted this poppies. I was really excited until it bloom. After it bloom I was super happy. It was so beautiful

For my zone- it is a guessing game of when to fling the seeds down~ so maybe this November I’ll try- instead of early spring ❤️🌸

Btw aren’t the seed capsules fabulous little bunkers with windows?! Ha ha 😊

@@0U812. in my zone 5, the poppy seeds that fall on the ground sprout in late April, early May the following year. just be patient.

you did a fabulous job in that strip of your property. just crush the dried up seed pods and scatter the seeds in the same planting strip for next year's show.

Lance Gordon Great idea!

I finally grew poppies this year in my zone 6b garden. First ths oriental poppies bloomed. Then the breadseed poppies with amazing silver grey foliage. The shirley poppies are blooming now. Wish I could share pictures here. If interested, check them out on my Instagram. Look for "home_and_garden_stories".

I have colored sand. What a great tip.

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Thank you Lance Gordon for a wonderful advice that I will try Next time I grow poppy seeds 👍👍

Because people die from over dose

Exactly. If I have flowers growing in the strip of land by the sidewalk, maybe people will stop throwing bags of garbage there after they’ve parked their cars. 🤞

I'm not even a Jesus man but amen to that.

The only thing I can imagine is about 50 dog walkers a day letting their dogs Pee all over them! Because everyone has to own a dog and everyone has to walk their dog in front of your house! 😡

Pedorosa Villales true. That’s when you set up a video camera and follow them home though

@@realproperty1012 the dogs pee will help if he's not allowed to pee all the time their

Do you even know what poppy is ?

I agree! I planted my and it looks so nice, except for constant dogs' urine, which really impact some of the growth. Watching this video makes me want to suggest that my neighbors plant poppies, since it looks easy.

Problem is that they are invasive. I want them in a part of my garden, but you have to be careful. Some parts you want to have clean lawn, some you want no vegetation at all... keeping them just whre you want is hard. In Denmark, in many areas, authorities do not cut the public "lawn" areas, such as sides of the roads or open areas. Instead, they let it grow wild and it is full of these flowers everywhere. Great for nature. But this has to bep lanned, if you simply let it go wild, it will look bad and be a bed for all sort of insects... and not exactly the ones people would think like bees... ticks and mosquitos are absolutely not welcome anywhere.

@@bluemountaincorps7158 yeah pretty flowers that also help relieve pain. Calm down wannabe cop.

I just moved to Portland and look forward to doing this next spring!

How delightful!

Do people stop by to collect latex from them?

Why don't you give them some poppy seeds so they can do it themselves? I have a whole jar of old poppy seeds to cook with I'm gonna broadcast and see if any of them come up. Who knows what color or variety they. It will be a total surprise.

I'm surprised antifa hasn't burnt your garden down yet. Portland has become the land of domestic terrorism. So sad

You say batchelors button, i say corn flower 😁😁

Nice contrast

I’ve read Poppy /Opium tea can be dangerous!

BecUse people keep talking about it >> big pharma doesn't like it...get me?

@@jabohabo3821what you said - the more people call attention to it, the more negative stigma will occur

Because opiate addiction happens suddenly and only after a couple or uses and you are physically addicted!! You can die in withdrawal, it's no joke! Not just a plant to play with at all! If this was legal there would be double the amount of addicts then usa already has

God gives us beautiful flowers that can double as something to help us feel good. Darkness wants to take that away from us. Darkness is an absense of light and love. They are greedy and also paranoid. They create Hell on Earth for us. If it was really a government 'by the people for the people' then the govt would not be trying to suppress so much. I can understand controlling synthetic shit that destroys people..but there is nothing evil about Papavar Somniferum. The USA is about greed from sea to shining sea. They hate competition from even GOD.

Thank you ❣️

Fields of poppies?! Where did you grow up it must be beautiful!

@@moisesm9602 in greece

Try Zinnias and blackeyed Susan's and daisys, cosmos, all pretty hardy and easy to grow

Where in the world are you?

Cosmos!!!

Part of the problem is that your ground may be too fertile. Look for information from google..uk planting a meadow

cosmos and zinnia are highly recommended, hardy as and easy to grow and will forgive a missed day or two of watering, even as babies

Kerrie Logan very kind of you!

Prettier. Paintings are just canvas covered in paint. I find flower gardens more enjoyable than art galleries.

Think the same here in Aus. The nature strip is council’s property

It’s council property not his.Having said that it would be great if we were allowed to convert this, maybe in the future the councils will get involved too

The point was that this isn’t part of the home owners property here in the U.K. and he’s right if you do that here you’ll be in trouble with the local authority. Perhaps laws are different where this guy is, it isn’t clear.

@@Euclidean3141 for less then a tenner of seeds I say the risk is worth it, plenty of gorilla gardeners in the UK and often they can inspire a change in heart from the local authorities

I'm in NZ and I think that if we did this to the burms (that's what we call these strips...) the council probably wouldn't bother to complain, even though it's their property. It saves them from mowing it, after all.

Great suggestions - will definitely incorporate them in our newly planted wildflower garden 🌺🌻🌷

Where is the best place to buy all the seeds? Are they legal to grow?

​@wendylavery8456 depends on your state for legal reasons, so research your local laws. But you can normally find poppy seed right now on clearance in big box stores and possibly online. Good luck!! ❤

​​@@wendylavery8456tractor supply i mean ive heard as long as you dont harvest you are fine which thank god the idea that they think they can make nature can be made "illegal" is just stupid. They are too pretty tonget ruined by stupid people.

​@wendylavery8456 I'm in Ontario Canada and all are legal to grow. Luckily my garden is on a higher balcony now.

@@wendylavery8456 .I get some beautiful varieties on Etsy.

Wow, great no nonsense ideas! I’ll be hanging onto those extra scraps of cardboard now for sure 😊

If you mix them in sand how would you know where the seed is?

And your garden would make their garden look dull.

Gods gift to the warriors of war

Very true my grandma and grandpa harvest the poppy for baking in the Ukraine they are so plentiful

brianinnis I bet they’ll turn out wonderfully!! Pls send me pics of how they do! Xoxoxo

Hey I'm from NS 🙌🙋‍♀️

I think we have to plant them in February up here, you just sprinkle them on the snow covered garden area. Takes six months to mature

How big are yours now 2 months later? I was late planting my seeds this year but in Canada, it was cold the last two weeks. Winter coat cold. This week it's 113°F! So my seeds ending up sprouting this year! Last year I sewed on schedual and not one grew.

Bea hi Bea, I live in Dallas with the same type soil. What did you cover the seeds with?

@@susanflanagan5906 Hi. Thanks for getting back to me. I covered some of them with native soil. Some I didn't cover with soil and all. Some I used row covers over. The one I covered with plastic row covers and planted in January and February did the best. The ones I started in pots (and kept under cover) did best of all. I translated them carefully and did mostly oriental and California poppies in pots. Bit I planted all varieties in the ground. This idea that they're "easy" to grow is just not my experience. Definitely have to plant in late fall early winter to stand a chance. What about you?

Uhhhh...clearly you have never dealt with the limestone caliche soils of Central Texas...which formed under sea beds eons ago. There is generally fossilized shells along with them, so this caliche soil is NO normal "clay". What we are taught in the master gardener program is to add organic matter to the caliche. It took millions of years to form, and will take at least that long to change the composition into the future.

@@joannathesinger770 uh oh. Fine line between intelligent educator and snarky know it all. Well not so fine of a line really

hi will you mind to share some techniques about these. will you mind if I want ypur gmail to get connected. I want to speak something about it.seriously I need some help

Cold stratification is needed if you live in a cold zone.

Eastern Colorado has terrible soil for poppies and other plants too! I've gotten one or 2 poppy plants that come back every year, but I want a poppy patch like his! I hope you finally got good results!

Trust me, Amarillo isn't the only place in Texas with really hard clay soil. I live in Austin and in many spots the soil is as hard as a rock. That's the case where I live. I'm wondering whether I can do this where I live.

I’m in Odessa, Tx and we have caliche. It’s so hard to break thru all the rocks!

Well Corpus and Houston also have horrible, horrible clay.... Any garden or flower bed soil I have had has always been from a garden center. I laid a thick layer of wood chips all over every bed at my last house, hoping for improvement the following year, but then we had to move. Now we are in the woods in NE Texas and hopefully will have better soil luck here. If not, I am getting a chipper😂

I might try using that phrase next time! :)

Where im from its called government property and they will mow it 😥

Yeah. My local city council will slap me with a fine and a demand for me to reinstate the grass or they’ll mow over it and increase the fine. We’re not even supposed to park on our nature strips.

@@ameliarose727 i'm in Michigan, and local cities have different ordinances regarding low grass. My local town lets you have flowers and natives, while next one over is not yet. You have to start contacting your local govt and tell them that this is beneficial to the eco systems and make them change the laws. Ours has changes and lots of people are doing just this. it's really nice.

I used to work mowing for the council and one thing we could never beat were gazanias. They will survive a mow and flower again within a week. Now here's the thing, many old types of Gazanias look a bit ugly, but the new types are pure colours like orange or yellow or mixed. If you look around the neighborhood you'll find some really nice types and they grow from cuttings so easily and spread from seed. so you can grow them amongst your lawn. Other lawn flowers include Salvia verbenaca, cape weed, ixias, woodland freesias, and Lippia, if you're lucky you'll be able to grow English daisies and Self-heal. All these pretty flowers will handle being mowed. Some of my other favourites include the dwarf bread-seed poppy, oxeye-daisy, cosmos and Viscaria oculata.

I bought a pound of them at the supermarket for a few dollars. I think they are opium poppies. I'm going to try them, I have read they are viable seeds that will grow just fine and cost almost nothing.

sarcasmo57-I used the baking poppy seeds. They are somniferum. They all turned out purple. Not my favorite plant-big raw boned coarse plants. I prefer the little poppies like in this video (papaver rhoeas or Shirley poppies) Such pretty color mixes available.

@@vgil1278 dose only the purple flower have the opium ?

My little girl spilled some Chia seeds that I threw into the soil instead of the garbage can and they are starting to grow nice and sturdy - will see how they turn out 💚

That’s awesome! We need more gardeners in Austin! I wish you the best of luck.

@@Baetanical would you sell any pods?

Wow! you must had a dreamy childhood.

Self-seeding annuals

Thank you so much! Do you know if it affects the pH of the soil? I have alkaline soil and am trying not to raise the pH any higher.

I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher! If gypsum does change the PH in any way, it is only in a small way. AND it is said to LOWER the PH, if it does anything at all (to the PH). Personally, I have never found gypsum to be a factor in my garden soil's PH. I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the black, clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say, the orange, sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay is often referred to as caliche, which is loaded with calcium rock deposits. You can actually see all the white calcium stuck in the black dirt clods! This calcium comes from all the limestone rock which Austin sits on. Unfortunately for our plants, this calcium in the soil is not always available to our plants on a metabolic level. In other words, the calcium is bound up in such a way that the plant life cannot take advantage of its wonderful, and much needed nutrition. Gypsum is a great way to un-bind some of these soil borne nutrients. One of the great things -besides being a natural organic material- is how gypsum works on making calcium more soluble to our plants on a microscopic, or scientific level. I am not a scientist, so that is about as far as I go on that! But having used gypsum in all my gardens, I can honestly say it is a magic ingrediant! The breaking up of the caliche is the only magic part I can physically see, unless you count healthy plants too! I don't mean to imply that compost, especially leaf compost, is not needed if you use gypsum, nor any other soil improvements for that matter. I am simply saying if you have soil that is hardpan, caliche, clay or some other reason the soil is tough to work in, gypsum is like waving a magic wand that takes a long time to work, but definitely worth the wait! I'm sorry this is such a long reply! I just get going about soil, and I sometimes can't leave out all the good details! I enjoy watching your gardening! ♡

I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher! I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say the orange sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay us often referred to as coliche

gardengatesopen perfect - I’m going to get some! I’ll ask the nurseries about it too. Thank you so much!

They can only be wasted by remaining in the package too long. Scatter them!

I own the land but the city has the right to dig it up to work on utilities whenever they want. It’s called an easement.