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Sallie’s Double Pink Poppy
50 days to bloom
2 to 3' tall
Gently Self-Sowing Annual
Papaver Somniferum
HEIRLOOM Luscious, endless petals! These seeds came to America in the pocket of a Turkish immigrant-become-professor who moved next door to Sallie, who fancied her neighbor’s elegantly ebullient poppies. He offered her seeds which she grew for years, passing seeds on to her son (our dear friend Alaric) who, in turn, has been growing them for years. We fancied them ourselves, I suppose! Give your neighbors something to swoon over and be generous with her abundant seeds for years to come.
Organic Sallie’s Double Pink Poppy
Planting Method: Transplant Recommended
For Transplanting: Sow 2 seeds / cell or soil block 5-8 weeks before final frost. Thin to 1 & transplant once 3 true leaves have emerged, up to 1 month before final frost.
To Direct Sow: Sow in Spring (as early as soil can be worked) or in Fall since poppies love to establish in cool soils. Sow 8 seeds/foot and thin to 2/foot once true leaves emerge.
Seed Depth: Barely cover Days to Germination: 7-21 in soil 45-65ºF
Sun Needs: Full/Part
Spacing (after thinning/transplanting): 6 inches
Days to Bloom: 50 Height: 24-36 inches
Poppies thrive in gardens as well as raised beds and containers, even in partial sun and marginal soil. A gently re-seeding annual, poppies often have a perennial presence in your garden, though establishing poppies from seed is often challenging. Enjoy our Secrets to Establishing Poppies blog!
For cut flowers, here’s the trick: harvest them just as their bud is about to break and sear the stem with a lighter. The blossom will continue to open and intriguingly, since their access to water has been cut off, the petals will be about 80% as large and the colors will be that much more vivid and concentrated. Cut poppies don’t have the vase-life that zinnias or sunflowers do, but this technique helps them hold their petals many days longer. And like so many vegetables, herbs and flowers, the more you harvest the more your plants will produce!
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Bonni Stahl –
I planted this poppy in my front flower bed north of Boston 5 + years ago. While I did get many poppies to germinate that first year, they have returned surprising me every year since …in their dramatic and fleeting beauty.