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Freeport Gardening Guide: Poppy

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Poppy

Lilac Pom Pom Poppy Seeds:

Description: Stunning bee-tempting flowers with self-seeding pods.  Fanciful and oh-so fabulous. Large, doubled blooms in soft lilac burst with personality—and pollen beloved by honeybees. After an early spring display, spent flowers give way to delightful pods that self-seed for next year's enjoyment.

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Sunset Mixed Colors California Poppy Seeds:

Description: Bright mix of red, cream, orange, gold and pink.  The California poppy is not a true poppy but has a similar look and feeling. Blossoms in our mix come in red, cream, orange, gold and pink. Silky cups, 2-3" wide, flutter on finely-cut silvery olive-green foliage. They will blooms from spring into summer, especially in cool weather. Sow seeds where plants are to grow. Great fillers in beds and containers. Plants are drought and heat tolerant and should be space 9-12" apart.

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California Watermelon Heaven Poppy Seeds:

Description: Easy to grow, fast flowering, super colors.  Mouth-watering color and silky crepe-paper petals make this poppy a scrumptious showpiece throughout summer. Splashy watermelon blooms are dotted with a delicious creamy white center, ideal for cooling sunny beds with small or large drifts. Easy to grow and fast to flower.

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Frilly Fun Appleblossom California Poppy Seeds:

Description: Enjoy the ease and beauty of this showy spring addition.  Easy does it. Direct-sow to put on an effortless cool-season show with masses of semi-double blooms. Dreamy cream and rose flowers dashed with yellow centers create a carpet of romantic color against fine blue-green foliage.

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Hungarian Blue Poppy Seeds:

Description: HEIRLOOM. Enchanting purple-blue flowers are followed by attractive seedpods.  Highly attractive heirloom poppy serenades the garden with a show of enchanting purple-blue flowers with translucent tissue-like petals, and silvery foliage. After flowering, pretty seed pods can be harvested for use in baking or can be included in dried floral arrangements. Easy to grow: direct sow seeds in borders or edges of the garden.

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Pandora Papaver Rhoeas Seeds:

Description: Sumptuous new corn poppy with colorful shades of burgundy striped with silver-grey.  This sumptuous new corn poppy is a colorful, happy-making choice. ‘Pandora’, a strikingly lovely, color-soaked 15-25 inch poppy, prolifically blooms in magical combinations of shades—ranging from deepest burgundy-red to pinkish-red, lower petals artfully striped with silver-grey. Surface-sow seed in sunny garden bed in winter, early spring, and late autumn for an extended floral extravaganza. ‘Pandora’ will thrive in prepared, well-drained, fertilized soil.

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