Poppy

[Columbarius]

This poppy plant self-seeded in my garden. I plan to collect the seed heads when it has finished flowering as I think it's a really attractive plant.

Purple Poppy (1024) by PhotographyRussell, on Flickr

[ST-EOS]

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Nice image Russell
You may be better to propagate this by taking root cuttings, doing so gives you quicker results and the plants created this way retain the parents colour which isn't always the case with plants grown from the seed

[Columbarius]

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Good suggestion Peter, I'll give it a try later in the year (Autumn or sooner?)

[tesarver]

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Russell

Tom

[Stan]

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A nice looking poppy

Stan

[DeeGee]

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Cropped from the right so that the flower is "looking" into the frame and going for a square crop (with maybe a touch from the left to get the square) would make a beautiful card.

[ST-EOS]

Poppy

Good suggestion Peter, I'll give it a try later in the year (Autumn or sooner?)

Russell do it in the autumn see the following for "How to"

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=407

[Columbarius]

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Thanks Tom, Stan & Di, and Peter for the gardening advice

[DianaS]

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Amazed that it is flowering so early. I have found that they spread by seed very abundantly and keep their original colour pretty well - they also seem to have a great sense of where to plant themselves!

[Columbarius]

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They are actually in a glasshouse Diana, which probably accounts for the early flowering, though I also have some red poppies flowering outside.

Thanks for looking.