Growing Poppies

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Poppies, with their richly-colored hues, dark centers, and silky petals, are often pictured growing many together. Red poppies on battlefields have symbolized the spilled blood of soldiers, and the paper versions of these flowers are often used to commemorate those fallen in wartime. Poppies, for all their loveliness, have long stood for death; centuries ago the Greeks associated them with eternal sleep.

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In some regions of the world, poppies are regarded as weeds. In others, certain varieties of poppies are cultivated for their seeds or for the drug opium, which has narcotic affects and medicinal purposes. Poppies can withstand dry, warm climates - one reason they thrive in wildflower and rock gardens - little attention is necessary for these flowers to bloom on their straight, single stalks.

Red poppies and orange-gold California poppies are two of the most popular varieties of this flower, though they can be found in other colors. California poppies have long been associated with gold, both by Native Americans and by the Spanish who explored the Americas.

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help me be a poppy gardener

i love the flower and go as far as calling it my flower.
I live in the state of wyoming and want poppies all over our 70 acres.

#0 - Terrie Pebbles - 05/27/2009 - 21:58


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