How to Grow Oriental Poppy (Papaver Orientale)
Poppies are showy early-summer flowers with petals like crepe paper. They grow 2 to 4 feet tall and bloom in white and all shades of pink and red.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Bypass Pruners
- Fertilizers
- Garden Stakes
- Garden Trowels
- Mulch
- Plants
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Choosing Oriental Poppy
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Look for plants at nurseries in spring and summer.
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Buy Oriental poppies in 4-inch to 1-gallon containers.
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Choose healthy-looking plants with signs of new growth in leaves and flower buds.
Planting Oriental Poppy
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Plant Oriental poppies in full sun in well-drained soil.
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Add a light application of organic fertilizer to the planting hole.
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Place the plants no deeper than they were growing in the containers.
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Set the plants 12 to 18 inches apart.
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Mulch around but not on top of the plants with 3 inches of organic compost.
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Water well until soil is completely moist.
Caring for Oriental Poppy
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Deadhead flowers, or leave to let the plants self-seed.
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Cut old stems back to the ground in midsummer when plants normally die back, using bypass pruners.
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Apply a light application of organic fertilizer to the top of the soil in spring; follow package directions.
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Mulch around but not on top of the plants with 3 inches of organic compost in spring.
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Water well weekly until soil is completely moist during summers with no rainfall.
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Stake or support tall plants so they won't flop over.
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Comments
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My poppys are growing excellent this year, must be my interest in the wizard of oz, or the rain...
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The best I can do for poppies and sunshine is about noon to sunset. Is this enough sun?
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manuelaurora
Jun 08, 2009
How do I keep rabbits from eating newly planted poppies? -
Jun 30, 2006
When the poppies have died, I always found that it looked very untidy. So what I have done is planted day lillies around the plants and it hides the dead poppies.
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Jun 30, 2006
When the poppies have died, I always found that it looked very untidy. So what I have done is planted day lillies around the plants and it hides the dead poppies.
