They are legal to plant as long as you're not planning to harvest the pods
for opium. However, it's too late in the year to plant them now. They, like
all other annual poppies, need to be started while the weather is still
cold - earliest spring in the north (like late February to late March) , and
fall in warmer zones. Some believe that frost helps to break the seed
coat - and in any case, the roots need to develop long before hot weather
strikes.
"Ignoramus29346" wrote in message
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In article , gregpresley wrote:
I have grown poppies using store seeds. They are the usual opium poppy
foliage - the flowers were single, sort of a pinkish lavendar - pretty,

Um, are these opium poppies legal to plant?

I planted them in an area where we removed a few trees and planted
four new fruit trees as a new orchard. Because the new trees are very
small, that area has a lot of unnused land. Icould not think of
anything easier than just spreading store poppy seeds on the ground
and raking it a bit. Hopefully, we could harvest some poppy seeds
later, if not, I would simply have wasted 50 grams of store bought
seeds.

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although not my favorite color in a poppy. In my opinion, the peony
flowered
doubles - either in pink or red - are the best looking opium poppy
varieties. I think the shirley poppies, especially the ones with
painted
rims, are generally more attractive, although the gray-green opium poppy
foliage is beautiful until after the flowers bloom - when it goes tan
and
gets ugly pretty quickly.
"Rich McKinney" wrote in message
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All,

Has anyone tried to sprout poppies using the poppy seeds from the
grocery
store?