!POPPIES!

I love to see poppies in the fields, and in gardens. However, I moved into this house two years ago, the garden was small but lovely. Then the poppies appeared. I pull them out each time they arrive and before they flower, but they come back in force. I think they are out to get me, like the triffids.

I bumped into the lady I bought the house off, in the garden centre funnily enough. She asked me "did the poppies come back"? hmmmmm

How can I rid myself of them??? any ideas???

 

It will take time. Not all seeds come up first year.
When you take them up, make sure you get all the root up.
Having said that, I quite like some poppies in the garden. I just take up the ones where I don't want them and move others to where I prefer them to be.
Be cheered by the thought:-
"If you have poppies, your neighbours will have them as well"

 

We have the little Welsh yellow ones just making an appearance now. I love the leaf shape and they are heralders of what's to follow. I find it comforting to see them return annually and I think, compared to ground elder or bittercress, they are easier to "show the door" when necessary.

 

Poppy seeds can lie dormant for 50 years or more, just waiting to colonise bare ground after the next avalanche. So, no you wont get rid of them.

 

Suits me Ziggy:ktykss:

 

If it's the red ones you are referring to then I'd love them in my garden

 

Yellow Welsh Poppies, that reminded me, i need to check RHS Plant Finder to see if there are some suppliers in my area. I want a few to go with my Ladybird Poppies. Got the Garden Show at Detling near Maidstone bank hol weekend, can't wait.

 

Hi Scorpio, I will check up on the Detling show and get there if its a dry day. Would you like me to send you some seed pods of mine when they are finished? They will be so light that I think I can slip some in a wee envelope,
Jenny namaste
ps - nice idea red and yellow mix

 

I saw something on telly fairly recently about not just poppies but loads of wild flowers. Apparently its the one good thing that came out of the carnage of WW2. Bomb craters apparently filled up with flowers that just hadn't been seen in many places in living memory. The seeds had been dormant in the soil for decades or centuries, and roads and buildings built over them and everything, then a bomb blows a big hole it and brings the buried seeds close to the surface, and they grew. But then I'm digressing a bit.

 

Not just wild flowers clueless Buddleja was a well known colloniser of bomb craters and damaged buildings during the war

 

Welsh Poppies support my theory that the Celts came to Britain by a coastal voyage and not by travelling by land across Europe from India.

 

Be good if the weather is nice but it's kind of fun if it's peeing down too as having never been to Glastonbury you get a good idea as to what it must be like lol. Some seeds would be fine thank you. Would you be interested in some seeds for Agapanthus? I have white from last year and hope to get the blue this year. Just got to figure out how to do a PM to you with my address - not done one yet.

 

Have replied to your PM Scorpio. Seeds will follow in due course,
Jenny namaste

 

Many thanks Jenny. Looking forward.

 

First poppy out today Scorpio - it has your name on it.
Jenny namaste