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Opium poppies
"amanda wrote in message Oddly enough the garden plots in our nursery are full of them too. I have not sown any seed and we are out in the countryside so I suspect the birds. They do look nice though. ((snip)) Some years ago someone, who obviously wanted to brighten up the place, broadcast seed of said poppy along a freshly dug side of the M3 between the M25 and Sunbury. Next year there was a wonderful display of poppies for some days until one morning on the radio I heard "delays town bound on the M3 due to the inside lane being closed due to the Council spraying the beautiful flowers all you drivers have been admiring because they are..... opium poppies!!!, a driver reported it to the police who say they cannot understand where they have come from." Horror, horror...... Waste of public money if ever I heard it and an admission of ignorance buy all involved in the Council/Police/Media......and of course, that fool of a driver who presumably must have been a gardener. -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Opium poppies
I believe they can remain dormant for up to fifty years so you might
have a long wait! Ron They *CAN* they rarely ever do.. At least not all of them. They do also, IIRC need a little light to germinate, hence the dormancy thing. EG they lie buried for up to 50 years but dormancy is broken when they are brought to the surface. // Jim Agreed; sowed lots of them last year in seed trays. They all came up. Nice show this year, though the leaves look a bit past it at this time of year. Will mix them with a mixture of red poppies next year for an even better show. Andy |
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