Kay Lancaster wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:27:29 -0600, zxcvbob
wrote:

In my flower garden I'm going to grow poisonous plants this year
for the foundation; so maybe the rabbits will leave them alone :-)
Foxgloves, nicotiana, and opium poppies. Do I need to plant the
poppies as soon as the ground surface thaws a little? I seem to
recall that they need a few freeze/thaw cycles to germinate well,
but that might be a different kind of poppy. Can they be
transplanted?

Not sure where you are in the world, but if you're in the US, please
be advised that opium poppy seeds are legal, but the plants are not.
On the theory that you, too, can prevent lawyers, it may be best to
find a different species.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21...08/1308_12.htm

No poppy really seems to take to transplanting.

Kay


Really? I thought it was only illegal if you extract the sap or tried
to smoke them or something. :-/ Maybe I should plant a different kind
of poppy then; they are all bitter and somewhat poisonous.

When I first moved here there were annual red poppies all over the
place. They looked like Flander's poppies except they were double. Not
sure what happened to them; one year they just didn't come back.

Bob