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25-09-2003, 03:42 AM

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(Andrea Bostrom) wrote:

Any advice re growing poppies ? NO not the naughty ones. I am in zone 6 and
have always admired the delicacy of this flower.

Andrea

The somniferums(?) have the most beautiful blooms, IMO.

I grew some this summer. My SO nicked a pod, to see if it would "bleed,"
like he saw in National Geographic. It did. We both shrugged and said,
"Hey, cool!" Since neither one of us is interested in opiates, we just enjoyed
the blooms all summer. *shrug*

The San Francisco police pulled up my grandmother's poppies in the '60's.
They told her it was illegal to grow them. Grandma was ****ed. She had no
idea the plants were illegal, but they were gorgeous and she loved them.

For Andrea: if you can, buy some poppy seeds now and spread them where you
want the plants to grow. Let them overwinter. They'll come up when the soil
warms up enough for the seed to sprout.

Jan