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Poppies

Pretty flowers but the damn things spread everywhere. They were here when I moved in, even round-up didn't get rid of them.



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sorry you dont like them! I do!!

5 May, 2012

 

i agree homebird

5 May, 2012

 

I do like them (although it probably didn't sound that way) but I wish they didn't spread so aggressively. I have a big Endless Summer hydrangea planted down a ways from there and they are very tough to pull out when they grow up into it. I actually love poppies, do any of you know of any less aggressive varieties?

6 May, 2012

 

Sorry I don't know, I have one planted where it is isn't supposed to be, I dug it up once and back it has come!
How about the Himalayan blue poppy?

6 May, 2012

 

That is a pretty one but I'm not sure if I have enough shade for it. I'd like to find some alpine poppies but the only ones I can usually find are the iceland poppies.

6 May, 2012

 

We have welsh ones here, they are yellow and much smaller than the red in your photo, they seed themselves all over the garden.

6 May, 2012

 

The nursery I used to work at had a couple poppy varieties but I never see them anywhere else. Are they easier to find there?

7 May, 2012

 

Quite a lot of poppies here, I currently have masses of seeds growing from poppy heads that were given to me.
A lot of ornamental poppies, also Icelandic. And I think there is one called garden gnome? Which has different coloured flowers, I have a feeling mine only lasted a year though.

7 May, 2012

 

They haven't come back yet? Sometimes I think I have lost perennials and then they decide to pop up again the next year so maybe you will have that luck too :)

8 May, 2012

 

not the garden gnome one, no :-(

other poppies are coming up, a lot of the welsh ones with buds.

9 May, 2012



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