i had a lovely show 2 years ago-- let the seeds spread and thought they would triple next time they grew==but not a one has appeared. no do not assume they were for anything other than show cuz they definetly were not nor were they grown where the public could see hence no"midnight garden raids! but am wondering?
wheelz,
Sep 14, 12:51am
Maybe it's too early yet? I grew some quite a few years back. and I still get seedlings pop up!
pericles,
Sep 14, 1:03am
I grow a couple of packets of a mixture of spring flowers years ago, still get seedlings from them popping up
instantly,
Sep 14, 2:58am
i planted about 10 different types a few years ago so 10,000s seeds but not one single poppy grew. not even one!
marte,
Sep 14, 10:56am
How f****d up is that.?
You can grow Opium poppies, but you cannot grow Marijuana, not even just to look at it.
marte,
Sep 14, 12:10pm
And you can buy Opium poppy seeds on trademe.
mm12345,
Sep 14, 10:36pm
Only if they're being cultivated for the purpose of producing restricted drugs. Otherwise it's perfectly legal to grow them.
They've come up in out garden already, no flowers yet of course, but some of the clumps of foliage are pretty large.
If you've come to steal them, then they're easy to find - just back a bit from the datura plants, alongside the lawn which is peppered with psylocybes. You'll know when it's picking season, the garden gnomes are listening to Dylan on their iPods while laying naked in the sun.
budgel,
Sep 14, 10:41pm
Is that Dylan Thomas or Bob Dylan?
mm12345,
Sep 14, 10:51pm
Dylan Moran I think - something's making them laugh.
bluefrog2,
Sep 15, 1:51am
I have had field and opium poppies pop up now and then in my garden beds, but every time I've tried to propagate them by scattering seed, hardly anything has come up again. Not really sure why.
overtt,
Sep 15, 2:44am
bullshit
rainrain1,
Sep 16, 3:11am
I'm forever pulling them out, they seed everywhere, blaardy things
lemming2,
Sep 16, 5:34am
ho, ho, ho.
uli,
Sep 18, 3:55am
Wrong it is not. You can grow as many as you like - for the flowers!
If the police catches you with a fork in hand doing little scratches on the seed pods - that would be another matter I guess LOL
arielbooks,
Sep 18, 4:37am
You can buy them in the garden centre called oriental poppies
rainrain1,
Sep 18, 4:51am
The oriental poppy is different to the opium poppy
rainrain1,
Sep 18, 5:15am
Bulbs?
kaylin,
Sep 18, 8:10am
I have opium poppies a plenty in my garden. They all self seed like mad, I crush the dried pods and flick them everywhere.
It is too early for thru at the moment. I usually have a fuzz on my ground, hasn't started yet.
uli,
Sep 18, 9:08am
Really - poppies now have bulbs - it seems I missed something in the last years .
piquant,
Sep 18, 10:17am
Just goes to show what a lot of garbage gets talked about things online. What gets me is - give them the facts and nobody listens. Feed them a line of totally misguided misinformation and they'll happily repeat it ad infinitum.
uli,
Sep 26, 8:05pm
???The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) and the Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas) are not the same thing. The Flanders poppy is native to France, where they grew naturally during the First World War in the fields of Flanders and where John McCrae was located while he wrote his poem.???
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