Kay Lancaster wrote:

Poppies in general are very sensitive to 2,4-D and similar auxin
analogs. I'm going to guess it was spray drift or just volatilized
2,4-D that did in your poppies. The good news is that double Shirley
poppies (the double form of corn poppies, the ones mentioned "In Flanders
Fields" are pretty easily available on the seed market.


That could be. My neighbors use *tons* of 2,4-d (I can smell it when I
come home after work if the lawn service truck has been around. They've
even sprayed my garden thru the chain link fence a few times.) I use
tiny amounts of 2,4-d in the front yard only to spot-treat thistles and
dandelions, and I never use it in the back. I weed the back yard by hand.

Anyway, these poppies looked like shirleys but they were all red instead
of mixed colors; frilly with a small black center. The pods were about
the size of a pecan. And the rabbits left them alone.

Bob