In full sun their flower colour can fade. Spring is the perfect time to plant oriental and Himalayan poppies. Dig a planting hole and add some well-rotted organic matter. Remove the plant from its pot and place it in the hole at the same depth it was in the pot. Backfill the hole and firm in place. Water well. Annual and biennial poppies are usually grown from seed. Annual poppies should be sown direct on to well-prepared soil.
Prepare the soil by removing weeds and rake the ground level. Water the soil with a fine spray of water and then scatter the seed. Annual poppies are easy to care for. Once flowers have faded and seeds released, pull up the parent plants and place them on the compost heap.
Oriental poppies hold their large flowers on strong hairy stems. They may need support to keep them upright —place this over the mound of foliage before the flower stems appear. Cut back plants to ground level in autumn and mulch with compost, leaf mould or bark chippings in autumn or spring. Poppy seed can remain in the soil for decades.
After flowering, avoid deadheading annual poppies to allow them to set seed. Lift a mature plant carefully and trim off a section of root with the thickness of a pencil. Cut the root into 4cm lengths and push them vertically into a pot of cutting compost with the thickest end at the top.
Cover the pot with a thin layer of grit, and water. Leave the pots in a cold frame and wait for little plants to form before potting on. For more than 30 years, she practiced in Montgomery as an award-winning landscape architect and wrote garden articles for a local publication.
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Sow your own poppy seeds this fall, and reap the benefits year after year. Let the pods dry in place on the plant. Clip the dry pods, and place them in a paper bag. Store in a cool, dry place over summer. In the fall, shake the seeds from the pod over well-prepared soil in a sunny flower bed.
Water the seeds daily with a gentle shower from the hose. After the seedlings emerge and begin to grow, thin them and taper off the watering from daily to every few days to weekly, depending on the amount of rain.
The plants will grow over winter and bloom in spring. Related posts:. Natural Inclinations. Olmsted's Legacy of the Land. Must-Have Marigolds. Natural Rose Care Tips. Sunflower Power. They should store well. Watch for rust on other onion family plants in the garden. Leeks and chives are examples. Get rid of any infected plants by late autumn, before they can transfer disease spores to any extra-early green garlic shoots, which sometimes appear early in the winter.
Another key disease prevention measure is to wait four years before planting garlic or any other onion family plant in a space. Dormant disease spores eventually die in the absence of a host.
Every year, in late summer, I make a rough sketch of the vegetable garden with all the major plant types positioned on it. I keep them on a clipboard for easy access to individual planting sites over recent years. Those pages are a helpful guide to keeping plantings moved carefully around from year to year. Dear Helen: For two years now, paper wasps have built nests in my greenhouse. They are not at all aggressive and their small nests are interesting. Effects of the disease on the harvested bulbs are minimal, though the infection can reduce bulb size.
They should store well. Watch for rust on other onion family plants in the garden. Leeks and chives are examples. Get rid of any infected plants by late autumn, before they can transfer disease spores to any extra-early green fall-planted garlic shoots, which sometimes appear early in the winter. Another key disease prevention measure is to wait four years before planting garlic or any other onion family plant in a space.
Dormant disease spores eventually die in the absence of a host. Every year, in late summer, I make a rough sketch of the vegetable garden with all the major plant types positioned on it. I keep them on a clipboard for easy access to individual planting sites over recent years. A welcome email is on its way.
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