| Author | Content |
haighr
Hagerstown, MD (Zone 6a)
May 17, 2001 6:29 PM Post #4980
| Is this a poppy? 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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kat7
Bloomingdale, NJ (Zone 6a)
May 17, 2001 6:45 PM Post #75227
| looks loke a poppy to me! |
dave
May 17, 2001 6:46 PM Post #75228
| Reminds me of the perennial Oriental Poppy.
Dave |
poppysue
Westbrook, ME (Zone 5a)
 May 18, 2001 11:19 AM Post #75397
| Don't worry Haighr - that's not an opium poppy. Dave is probably right with an Oriental poppy. That's a lovely double flower ~ save some seeds for me please! :) |
Happy_Gardener
Cedar Rapids, IA
May 19, 2001 12:10 AM Post #75496
| Great photo Haighr of a lovely poppy.
Your garden looks very nice. |
dpmichael
Rethymno, Crete
Greece (Zone 10b)
May 19, 2001 11:40 AM Post #75576
| poppysue,
this looks like a wild-growing poppy, at least for the Greek pastures.
Are you sure you want seeds??
I thought it was a very humble and ever-present weed.
Please let me know |
poppysue
Westbrook, ME (Zone 5a)
May 19, 2001 12:41 PM Post #75591
| dpmichael - I'd be glad to trade for some seeds. They certainly aren't weeds here. Do you know the species of poppy that you have in Greece? Is it perennial? |
Baa
May 19, 2001 8:53 PM Post #75664
| It reminds me of a Spanish poppy - Papaver rupifragum we sometimes have growing here, sometimes you may even be lucky enough to get a semi double or full double. Its pretty rare here but has the a great colour. The Spanish poppy is a hardy perennial.
The reason I disagree with the oriental poppy is that the filaments are normally larger and a darker 'black' and the petals look too delicate to be papaver orientale to me. |
Jerseyguy
Princeton, NJ (Zone 6a)
May 21, 2001 2:38 AM Post #75932
| There is an orienal poppy called "May Queen" that looks very much like this. May Queen has flexuous stems and untypically smallish blooms for an oriental. I have seen this poppy around, in fact, I had a large patch growing in my yard until it got shaded out by the neighbors trees. I never planted it although I think my neighbor may have scattered a packet on seed on her side of the fence and it just spread. If you have the Random House Book of Perennials, vol 2 by Phillips and Rix there is a small picture of it on page 29. |
