Or you could consider geologic time and have a dinosaur theme garden — especially if you have youngsters. Poppy relatives grew in dinosaur times. Beatrix Potter fan?
An English Cottage Garden should be dripping with poppies. About the Author: Jacqueline A. Soule, garden writer and popular speaker, has produced over gardening columns for local, regional and national newspapers and magazines.
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All About Poppies. By Jacqueline A. Soule , gardening expert and author. Learn More. A must-have for any wildflower meadow or garden, this easy-to-grow annual delights with bright blooms throughout the summer season.
Deer resistant and attractive to pollinators, Red Poppies can be planted in any region of the US. Guaranteed to grow. These deer resistant annuals flower from spring all the way into summer and will often re-bloom again in the fall. Native, easy to grow and tolerant of most soils. Perfect for new garden beds, lining walkways, large planters, and anywhere in between. Papaver rhoeas and Coreopsis tinctorial. Poppies are great fro attracting pollinators such as this bee.
Sweet Peas are great for encouraging pollinators such as bees in spring. Sunflowers are a great plant for teaching kids about gardening and the importance of pollinators. Russell lupins look fantastic planted en masse and will have the bees swarming all over them. Marigolds are fantastic companion plants and encourage pollinators too. Borage is great for encouraging pollinators like bees into the garden. Calendula is great for attracting pollinators.
Share this:. Leave a comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. And, while the seedlings are tremendously cold-hardy, the plants will bloom earlier and better if they are covered with cloches or loose mulch during severe cold spells.
I have also accidentally grown them under a row cover tunnel through winter, and they loved it. In some years the first poppies bloom in weather so cool that honeybees can barely fly, but still they appear in mid-morning, ready to roll in the newly opened flowers when the pollen is fresh. This is thrilling, so I like to keep poppies blooming well into summer, which is most easily done by lifting and moving seedlings in early spring. They hate being transplanted, even when soil is kept packed around the roots, and it takes the plants so long to recover that the effect is a prolonged season of poppies.
This is great for me and the bees, because I like using poppies as short-lived cut flowers. No wonder Van Gogh and Monet loved painting poppies. They suck on stem tips and flower buds and inject a toxic that deforms roots, stems and ruins flowers. Burpee Recommends: Because lygus bugs over winter in garden debris, remove all debris after the first frost. Contact your Cooperative Extension Service for insecticide recommendations. Spittlebugs: These hopping insects protect themselves from predators with a white foam while the young insects feed on the leaves and stems.
When the insects emerge they are hoppers with large "froggy" eyes. There is only one generation each year but the larvae can hatch over a period of several weeks as the eggs were laid in the fall. Burpee Recommends: To control, wash the foam off with a strong water spray.
This will usually also kill the larvae. Do this once or twice a week for as long as needed. The damage is usually minimal. Thrips: Thrips are tiny needle-thin insects that are black or straw colored. They suck the juices of plants and attack flower petals, leaves and stems. The plant will have a stippling, discolored flecking or silvering of the leaf surface.
Thrips can spread many diseases from plant to plant. Burpee Recommends: Many thrips may be repelled by sheets of aluminum foil spread between rows of plants. Remove weeds from the bed and remove debris from the bed after frost. Check with your Cooperative Extension Service for pest controls. Should I deadhead my annual poppies? Yes for continuous bloom it is important to remove the spent flowers.
Can I indoor sow poppies? Poppies are very difficult to transplant because they develop a tap root so we do not recommend them for direct sowing. They are quite easy to sow directly in the garden. Are poppies deer resistant? Poppies are seldom damaged by deer, however if you have a lot of deer and little food deer will eat them.
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