Hi All. I have found this poppy growing behind our Workshop & was wondering if I could dig it up to put in the flower bed or would that make it wilt & die?

That is Meconopsis cambrica. Not that easy to dig up, but a real seed weed where it is happy. Don't worry if you have one you will soon have hundreds.

That's a Welsh poppy, Meconopsis cambrica. Most poppies are very difficult to move without damage. However, you could collect the seed and put it in your flower bed - it's a spreader though, and might take over!

Snap, Owdboggy!

AKA Welsh poppy. If you do want to have some in your flower bed just save the seed - germinates easily sown where you want it to flower. Easy to pull up when they grow where you don't want them.

Thank You All. When would I scatter the seeds? In the spring or just when the seed heads are ready? x

It won't survive the transplant shock. But you can go get a packet of yellow poppy seeds now and pant them where ever you like. They spring up rather quickly

I would scatter the seeds when they are collected. After all that is what happens naturally.

Thanks again for the advice :o) xx

Just be aware that Mec. cambric will do its damnedest to take over your garden! Needs regular dead heading if you don't want it to do so!

I have inherited this plant from a neighbor and it is very ferocious and difficult to eradicate . It's a shame because it is a very attractive plant
Marjorie

I'd say it was just about impossible to eradicate Marjorie.

That makes a change.....something I can't kill LOL x

It does pop up in unexpected places but its so pretty I usually leave it where it is...but then I'm somewhat of a random gardener.

I absolutely love this plant even when it self-seeds in inappropriately coloured places. Yet it brings a certain continuity to my small garden and as you say, Stera, easy to pull up. Not so easy to transplant although i have had many successes as well as failures. The long tap root seems to do ok if one can dig deep enough and get it out in one piece. i wouldn't want to be without this beautiful native plant. Bees love it. Another plus.

They would look nice under my hedge in the front garden where I don't grow anything so will save the seeds later :o))

Hurray, MerlinBD - glad somebody else likes them even it they do pop up in the "wrong" place . It amazes me how the seeds can move so far from the parent. It's certainly not the wind here - wrong direction entirely.