What's Happened to My Oriental Poppies

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  1. wiseowl

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    Good afternoon I have just noticed that there is something wrong with one of my oriental poppies (Red Rumble) could anyone help please,all the other poppies are fine.Thank you:smile:

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    Do you usually stake your poppies @wiseowl ?
    I'm wondering if it's something to do with stress on the stems, l'm sure I've read that somewhere, but not 100% certain.
     
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      Good afternoon @AnniD my friend no I haven't staked them ,Its the only one that is like that ,I have 3 others and they are fine:smile:
       
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      Back to the drawing board for me then....:biggrin:
       
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        It looks like Botrytis blight which Oriental poppies can suffer from in wet summers.
        They can also suffer from downy mildew, I know Beth Chatto stopped selling them because of this.
         
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