Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my
own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
On 05/05/2025 09:19, N_Cook wrote:
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such
poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my
own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla
gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
I just thought, is there a type of culinary poppy seed that is
germinatable, perennial from the rootstock when established and for me preferably orange flowers.
a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between front
garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see.
N_Cook wrote:
a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between front
garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see.
I like them when they're actually in flower, but that seems such a short period of their life, outside of which they look a bit untidy ... they certainly reappear each year, not necessarily in the same places.
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my
own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
On 05/05/2025 09:19, N_Cook wrote:
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such
poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my
own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla
gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
I can grow many things but poppies defy me. I have tried buying
perennial ones in pots and very carefully replant them without
disturbance. I might get one flower that year, but that's it. They never self-seed. Or I get seeds from dry flower heads and spread them around.
After all, they come up everywhere else on their own, even if sown years before.
They don't germinate for me... :-(((
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
On 05/05/2025 09:19, N_Cook wrote:
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap betweenOrange poppies? sounds like Welsh Poppies (Papaver cambricum)leaves are feathery and the plants only get about 6 inches tall. I find they pop up where they want to, indeed they moved from our front garden to the rear. Never a problem, ours are pure yellow but lots are orange.
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see
such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried
my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a
guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed
bombing in a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
On 05/05/2025 09:19, N_Cook wrote:
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap betweenOrange poppies? sounds like Welsh Poppies (Papaver cambricum)leaves are feathery and the plants only get about 6 inches tall. I find they pop up where they want to, indeed they moved from our front garden to the rear. Never a problem, ours are pure yellow but lots are orange.
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see
such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried
my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a
guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed
bombing in a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
On 05/05/2025 17:53, Bob Hobden wrote:
On 05/05/2025 09:19, N_Cook wrote:
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gapOrange poppies? sounds like Welsh Poppies (Papaver cambricum)leaves
between front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see.
Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried
my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a
guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed
bombing in a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
are feathery and the plants only get about 6 inches tall. I find they
pop up where they want to, indeed they moved from our front garden to
the rear. Never a problem, ours are pure yellow but lots are orange.
Welsh poppies are usually rather taller than 6 inches tall.
Orange poppies could be Papaver dubium (long headed poppy), which is
annual, Papaver atlanticum (Atlas poppy), a perennial, both of which are reddish-orange, or the orange form of Papaver cambricum, which is a
short lived perennial.
Papaver cambricum will transplant, but there's a fair risk of losing the plants that way.
All three species, and Papaver rhoeas and Papaver somniferum, occur as pavement weeds, but I am not certain that the species would persist in
the absence of recruitment from cultivated plants.
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
In article <vv9s9u$2kf1$1@dont-email.me>,
diverse@tcp.co.uk says...
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such
poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my
own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla
gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
Where there's a clump of poppies, there's a large supply
of free seed. Each flower produces a seed pod like a
pepper pot, containing hundreds of tiny black seeds.
Collect seed from the ripe pods (before they open) and
scatter it thinly on the soil surface, where you want
poppies.
Annual poppies often thrive best in poor dry conditions.
Janet
On 05/05/2025 23:37, Janet wrote:
In article <vv9s9u$2kf1$1@dont-email.me>,
diverse@tcp.co.uk says...
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such
poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my >>> own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla >>> gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
-a-a Where there's a clump of poppies, there's a large supply
of free seed. Each flower produces a seed pod like a
pepper pot,-a containing-a hundreds-a of tiny black seeds.
Collect seed from the ripe pods (before they open) and
scatter it thinly-a on the soil surface, where you want
poppies.
Annual poppies-a often thrive best in poor dry conditions.
-a-a-a Janet
One of the local in-the-wild orange poppies
-ahas lost its petals in the last couple of days.
Leaving green seed pods, what colour of brown or whatever indication ,
as to ripeness to harvest seed, leaving one pod for ongoing nearby supply.
On 05/05/2025 23:37, Janet wrote:
In article <vv9s9u$2kf1$1@dont-email.me>,
diverse@tcp.co.uk says...
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such
poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my >> own, but miserable failure everyyear, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla >> gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
Where there's a clump of poppies, there's a large supply
of free seed. Each flower produces a seed pod like a
pepper pot, containing hundreds of tiny black seeds.
Collect seed from the ripe pods (before they open) and
scatter it thinly on the soil surface, where you want
poppies.
Annual poppies often thrive best in poor dry conditions.
Janet
One of the local in-the-wild orange poppies
has lost its petals in the last couple of days.
Leaving green seed pods, what colour of brown or whatever indication ,
as to ripeness to harvest seed, leaving one pod for ongoing nearby supply.
Round me a number of houses have poppies every year in the gap between
front garden wall and the pavement, I quite like to see. Never see such poppies in the gardens though.
Now councils seem to be disinclined to weed spray so much, I've tried my own, but miserable failure every year, transfering seedlings and
watering, get eaten or dog piss or something.
I assume as all the other apearances are orange poppies, that a guerilla gardener has a large supply of cost-free seeds and goes seed bombing in
a wet period sometime.
Anyone any knowledge how its done?
The optimum harvest time for these orange poppy "pepper pots" is when
there are pale green and fawn stripes to the pods.
The "blue" culinary poppy seeds just showing simple physical swelling/cracking of the blue/grey casings and internal white showing up
but no sign of any biological germination.
On 18/05/2025 11:21, N_Cook wrote:
The optimum harvest time for these orange poppy "pepper pots" is when
there are pale green and fawn stripes to the pods.
The "blue" culinary poppy seeds just showing simple physical
swelling/cracking of the blue/grey casings and internal white showing up
but no sign of any biological germination.
For the current crop of seeding urban wild curtilage poppies at
different sites around Southampton, I'm surprised the variety of "pepper pots".
Red flower, brown seed in bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, tiny black seed , taller bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, large black seed, banana shapa pods, 50mm long 5mm diameter. No yellow ones seen
On 31/05/2025 13:53, N_Cook wrote:
On 18/05/2025 11:21, N_Cook wrote:I love my huge magenta ones
The optimum harvest time for these orange poppy "pepper pots" is when
there are pale green and fawn stripes to the pods.
The "blue" culinary poppy seeds just showing simple physical
swelling/cracking of the blue/grey casings and internal white showing up >>> but no sign of any biological germination.
For the current crop of seeding urban wild curtilage poppies at
different sites around Southampton, I'm surprised the variety of
"pepper pots".
Red flower, brown seed in bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, tiny black seed , taller bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, large black seed, banana shapa pods, 50mm long 5mm
diameter.
No yellow ones seen
On 31/05/2025 16:23, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 31/05/2025 13:53, N_Cook wrote:
On 18/05/2025 11:21, N_Cook wrote:I love my huge magenta ones
The optimum harvest time for these orange poppy "pepper pots" is when
there are pale green and fawn stripes to the pods.
The "blue" culinary poppy seeds just showing simple physical
swelling/cracking of the blue/grey casings and internal white
showing up
but no sign of any biological germination.
For the current crop of seeding urban wild curtilage poppies at
different sites around Southampton, I'm surprised the variety of
"pepper pots".
Red flower, brown seed in bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, tiny black seed , taller bulbous cup shape pods
Orange flower, large black seed, banana shapa pods, 50mm long 5mm
diameter.
No yellow ones seen
Are they the ones the size of desert bowls with 4 dramatic black patches?
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