More typical opium poppies. They seed themselves and do not seem to intergrade with the ruffled ones.

Oh I love those purple gleam!! The orange ones self seed prolifically around here. They’re like weeds. I can’t get rid of them try as I might. I’d be happy if Inhad those purple ones instead!

I have one bread poppy that is trying to make on Laura's grape hues. but I never planted any of hers.

All the annual ones shown here with the same clammy grayish, vaguely lettuce-like leaves are examples of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).

@Embothrium, so do you think my “volunteer” poppy is Papaver somniferum? It has the same type of leaves but a different style of flower.

Yes it is

Thank you, wantonamara. It’s nice to know what it is.

I grew 2 kinds of papaver somniferum a couple years ago. I don't remember the names of the varieties but I remember there were red ones and white ones. Sadly they did not return last year (I'm guessing the area they were in didn't get enough sun) so I'll have to get some more seeds.

I planted some Hungarian bread poppies 18 years ago and they seemed to morf into all these different colors.It has been really windy so many are being ripped apart quickly.

a lavender along with that darker purple above

And this coral pink

What a fun thread Josue! I love that you collected your own seeds on your hike! That's a great tip too that you can cut them back for another later bloom. I'm going to give it a try with my CA poppies!

So I am loving all of these fun varieties, the pics of the oriental poppies, purple gleam, opium, and of the others that this lovely group posted! So beautiful! This is my first year trying a fancy one and I just got my first bloom of pepperbox poppy! I'm a little too excited about it, sorry!

wantonamara, I have tons of seed now from my poppies. send me a message if you're still wanting some.

Here is a (pitiful) shot of the first papaver dubium albiflora lecoquii (which I will refer to as 'Beth's Poppy' in future to avoid the immense nominative mouthful)

plus a couple of the allotment and my tiny home garden just because...although internet misbehaving so post cut short (with mystifying double pics?

Not rare, not difficult but at this time of year what's not to like about self sown Meconopsis cambrica?

Absolutely agreed, Floral. I have them in various shades from a bright lemon to almost scarlet -always a welcome sight (and have been sneakily colonising the local graveyard too).

@ Josue, I sent you a PM.

I love the welsh poppies vicariously. That 'consistently moist' soil that the M. cambrica needs will keep my in the enjoy vicariously category. Is that brush growing off your roof, Floral? I had an overgrown roof ( that leaked) at rental house I lived in Hawaii.

The shed roof has roses, Buff Beauty (just starting to flower in the top pic) and Goldfinch, Clematis montana, the neighbour's Pyracantha and some ivy. There's a Cecile Brunner I grew from a cutting headed that way too. And a newly planted C jackmanii by the egregious drainpipe. None of it is actually rooted on the roof, it climbs up there. There used to be a jasmine but I hacked it down because it was getting too enthusiastic.

I love your little overgrown corner. What is the purpose of your shed? I had a cecile brunner once , in town. It got up tall on some bamboo. It was duking it out with some Conferate Jassmine . It died due to a period of extremely long lasting wet weather where it lost its roots growing in clay and then it was followed by a 8 month drought and it had no deep roots to drink with. AHHHH , Texas weather. only tough survive, That was the Jasmine. It topped out the bamboo at 20'(right by my second floor bedroom window)

Overgrown corner, lol. There speaks a Texan. That corner is my entire property. There is nothing else. The shed is just a shed. It contains tools, diy stuff, gardening kit and assorted other junk.

Oh Goldfinch - a gorgeous rose (I have 2 of them along with Ghislaine de Feligonde, also in the lineage)...and a fantastic pale yellow r.helenae. Sadly, BB has sulked and snivelled for me.

Shed hidden by Snowgoose and Moonlight
I love your little garden too, Floral. May and June are my best garden months...while the allotment looks decent for the latter half of the summer. Have planted Cecil Brunner for customers but reached my limit for enormo-roses some years ago...might elbow one in somewhere mind...and yep, it is a good rose on its own roots (quite a lot of mine are, having started out as cuttings). Some serious weighty plantage there though, Floral (clematis montana!)

Ha ha, what shed?

Every so often someone climbs on the roof of ours and chops the whole lot off. ;) Here's the montana last month a year after being cut to the eaves and setting off back up next door's bay tree.

I'm not mad about roses but all mine have a story. BB was a cutting grown by my dad from his neighbour. Both dead now. Goldfinch was the result of my finally tracking down a rose I remembered from a childhood garden but which I didn't know the name of. Cecile Brunner was a cutting nicked from a hedge on Eel Pie Island in the Thames after a rugby match at Twickenham.

p.s. I like your hoops for the smart netting. Source? Mine is a mix of tattered leftovers held up by random bits of stick and wire hoops.

Floral, My in Town house before I moved out to the this present place was 1/6th of an acre and it had a house and 2 (woodshop & furniture repair) shops that had 4 people working in them. The garden was tiny and dense. Most patio was roofed in and used as workspace. Even the driveway was a workspace. Nothing was sacred.. The opposite of where I am now.

Your clematis Montana is definitely drool worthy.

I did not mean the "Overgrown corner" as derogatory. I love the corners of the world. Where I grew up in downtown Philladelphia, roof gardens and tiny hidden lots were a lucky person's realm. The hidden corners are everywhere if you know of them. Modern American cities have made codes that have made the "overgrown corner" illegal. They have sterilized the cityscape in my opinion.

Mmm, the 'hoops' are actually various remains of those little plastic greenhouses, scavenged from the allotment site after a windy winter and vanished owners. I have a skilled offspring but unfortunately, the many metal supports I had hoped for are arriving at a glacial pace so yep, another summer of tatty tomato supports hoves into view.

I knew it wasn't derogatory, wantonamara, I was just smiling at you saying this was a corner of my plot, whereas it's pretty much the entire thing. ;-)

Camp, I like a good scavenge too. I have a compost bin, a small wheelbarrow, various buckets and numerous canes. But I've never nabbed a flying greenhouse.

Papaver rhoeas 'Bridal Silk' (and bonus bug)

A combination of an open, flat and windy site...and a prevailing wind which covers 3/4 of the plot before running into my plot, with at least a dozen trees and around 50 giant roses means something to scavenge almost everyday...although those cheapo plastic and wire cloche things are the most common (and possibly least useful).

Nice white simple poppy. I love the P roeas for getting up a lower level of blooms to contrast the tall opium poppies. NONE of my P roeas came up this year none of the shirleys . It has been dry, now it is dry and hot so poppies season is over for me. I am feeling the cool air blow off these pictures. I have a week of 104º, 105º starting on thursday.keep those cool vibes coming.

Not my poppies, but this is P rhoeas doing what nature intended in a field in Wiltshire.

They’ve started popping here!

Just today! P. rhoeas 'Falling in Love'

Definitely growing it again. With Cynoglossum, for sure.

That is a delecate beauty , ROB333

It blew me away when I saw it. Wish there was a perennial version!

Papaver atlanticum. I tend to deadhead it a bit, otherwise it dominates that part of the garden.

I tried to get a pack of these to germinate this year unsuccessfully. I would not mind the domination. What kind of soil do you have there. I am wondering that maybe I should amend the soil and make it friendlier.

Perfect timing gdinieontarioz5. I saw this thread this morning and said to myself 'Surprised nobody has posted P. atlanticum yet. I'll go take a picture of mine later this morning and post a picture'.

I like this because it's a plant with the 'European cottage garden' look that is pretty much indestructible in our climate. Unlike Glaucium, the wet winters or summers don't destroy them. They self-seed just below nuisance level. Seen with one of my many JM seedlings as a backdrop. If I let them grow out my flower beds would just become jungles of JMs LOL.

Wantonamara, the soil in my garden is amended alkaline clay. Winters can be wet, summers dry or wet, nothing has killed off these poppies in 20 years. If you PM me, I can send you some seed once it is ripe. Do other people in your area grow it? I got a plant from a local plant sale. It did not appreciate being transplanted, but it produced enough seed to start them.

David, I love that background of JM. Dig up some good JM seedlings and have a plant sale :-). Someone around here made a killing with that years ago. He was digging up more and more while the sale was in progress, as he had greatly underestimated demand ;-).

@gdinieontarioz5, People mostly grow the P. somniferous, P. roeas, P. nudicaule and california poppies. I have not seen these but that is because people mostly don't experiment. They buy the seed packs on the wall at the neighborhood nursery

Wantonamara, did you get my messages and/or the seeds?

Not yet. I haven't been out to the mail box in a couple of days. Been busy. Its a 1/2 mile away.

No problem! They will wait ;-).

Does anyone know whether rabbits like California poppies? I have a severe problem with rabbits eating everything in my garden, and am now planting sages and lavenders, hoping against hope that they'll be too smelly for the rabbits. I wondered whether there was something about the poppies that might render them inedible the rabbits. The only plant in my garden they won't touch is a single penstemon, so I've bought a few more, but California poppies would be a nice thing to have in my California garden.

@ GDinieontarioz5, I got the seed but could you message me your address so I can send you something in return. I got the Ontario but I am confused by The " LgCbt5" that comes after it. Did I get it right? Is there a name that I need to address it too Message it to me..

Hi Ingrid, I know the rabbits will probably eat anything if they are really hungry, but my understanding is CA poppies aren't their first choice and if you spread large amounts of seeds this fall, even if they eat some there will still probably be some left. I think it's worth a shot. Every October for the past 3 years I spread tons of CA poppies in my challenging steep back slope. They definitely pop up in interesting unplanned areas too, but I've come to embrace that! I love the bright orange and they pair nicely with purple statice that I've seen in your pictures! Especially if you are putting in lavenders and salvias. The rabbits are definitely challenging. This last season, rabbits decimated our young raspberry and BlackBerry bed, it was sad. Interestly they left the boysenberries alone!

Tiffandrew, thank you for the heads up. The poppies sound worth trying and I think it will be fun to have them in my garden, although not perhaps in very close proximity to the main rose bed. We shall see how it all works out.

That's great Ingrid! Have you seen these slightly fancier california poppies from Annie's Annuals (I hope the links work!).I'm debating on introducing these into a different difficult front slope on the front of my house near some rosemary. I think the pink would be really pretty, but so would the frilly orange. The first is the rose chiffon california poppy
https://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/view/?id=160
The second is the Apricot chiffon.
https://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/view/?id=153
Such fun varieties!

I suggest looking for seeds for the poppies , not plants. More plants ,less cost.

There are LOTS of different varieties of California poppies and most are available by seed. I'd suggest looking at the One Stop Poppy Shoppe or Renee's Garden for a good selection.

Great suggestion Wantanomara. I agree, I don't know how well the plants would transplant and seed is easy and cheaper. Thanks for the vendors Gardengal!