Heirloom Mix Poppy brings the romantic, delicate charm of traditional garden poppies to modern spaces. This cultivar of Papaver somniferum grows 24-36 inches tall with a blooming season stretching from spring through summer, flowering for nearly 100 days from seed to bloom. The heirloom mix offers multiple color varieties in a single planting, giving you the layered, cottage-garden aesthetic that makes poppies so beloved. Deer won't touch them, and pollinators flock to their open faces, making these flowers both beautiful and ecologically valuable.
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Full Sun
Moderate
6-10
36in H x 10in W
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These poppies germinate from surface-sown seed in as little as 5 days and reach full bloom within 98 days, rewarding patient gardeners with weeks of delicate flowers. The heirloom mix includes a range of traditional colors in a single packet, so you get the surprise and character of genuine heritage genetics. Direct sowing in autumn or early spring is the recommended route, though gardeners can start them indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost if they handle the seedlings with extreme gentleness, as poppies strongly resent transplanting.
These ornamental poppies are grown for their elegant, papery flowers, which bloom prolifically over months and create that signature wild, romantic effect in cottage gardens and cutting gardens. The flowers themselves are the primary ornament, appearing in a range of hues across the heirloom mix.
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Sow seeds in pots 6-8 weeks before your last spring frost. Surface sow and cover very lightly with vermiculite or use a humidity dome. Keep soil at 65-70°F until germination occurs (typically 5-20 days), then drop the temperature to 50-60°F. Handle seedlings with extreme gentleness during transplanting, as poppies are sensitive to root disturbance.
Transplant hardened-off seedlings outdoors after the last frost date, spacing them 1 foot apart. Be very gentle with roots and minimize disturbance to the root ball.
Direct sow 4 weeks before your last spring frost, or in late autumn if you're in zones 8 and warmer. Mix seed with fine sand and scatter thinly over prepared soil; the seeds need light to germinate, so do not cover them.
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