It is always wonderful to spot the new arrivals each spring. One of my native rhododendron has the loveliest large bloom on it! Best surprise of the week! Your poppies are spectacular.

This is my mothers garden, i had grown lots of oriental poppies ’royal wedding’ and sent her seedlings last fall in the mail.

mine are still small, no sign of buds yet

beautiful show Chris!

@ckerr007, beautiful poppy! Is it the common red field poppy?

@Markay MD-Zone 7B, I love the color! What variety?

This is my first year to grow poppy. l got some Black Peony Poppy seeds from eBay and sowed last winter. The first to bloom are the common red poppy and I thought I got the wrong pack of seeds. But it is beautiful

Now the other poppy plants start to set bulbs and ready to bloom. Looks to be a big bloom

I also sowed Califonia orange poppy last winter. They started well but growed poorly after heavy spring showers. The Indian Lavender and Mother of Pearls poppy seeds did not germinate.

Oh, that red!!

Forever a newbie, it is a peony-flowered poppy

@Markay MD-Zone 7B, It really looks like a peony! And the color is soft and pretty! I can’t wait for mine to bloom. I think it look like yours but different color.

Today I found a mother of pearl that managed to survive.

California Poppy

The OP's red poppy is not Papaver rhoes, which is the common field poppy and is an annual. It's an Oriental, a perennial. The peony flowered poppies shown here are Papaver somniferum, annual or biennial.

Correct, sorry I didn't have a chance to answer earlier.

If you can get them started the Orientals are glorious, as you can see.

Chris

I am also slightly mortified that I did not pull out the dead leaves before I took those pictures. My bad.

Chris

@floraluk2, thanks! I was wondering if chris’s is an oriental poppy. the leaves look different from common one, but flowers look similar

The first oriental. I also have ’Beauty of Livermere’, but that one is always a bit later.

Who else has P. atlanticum? I let it be a pop up surprise: it self seeds, and unless it is a bother in a certain spot, I leave it. The flowers are very ephemeral, one day, and if it is hot, a few hours. I do deadhead it regularly, that keeps it blooming and prevents a too enthusiastic seeding around. This one works well with the centaurea, but at times it pops up in the middle of a hot magenta geranium. It is funny for those few hours.

I have an embarrassingly large collection of (smallish) poppies, from the tiny alpinum, atlanticum (but this is on the list for removal), rupifragum, nudicaule, the fragile apricot pilosum, miyabeanum, dubium lecoq...and, as of today, the truly amazing macrostomum 'Black Magic'...as well as various vague relatives such as stylomecon and escholtzia (sp?) caespitosum. I don't grow orientals (too big) or somniferum or rhoes (too seedy). I do love to see a poppy field in full scarlet glory though.

Have had too many (failed) attempts with various meconopsis and only grow the weedy, but lovely m.cambrica.

Rosaprimula, may I ask why atlanticum is not in your good graces any more, but rupifragum is? Colour?

My mom always had cambrica in Holland. Orange and yellow. So lovely. I tried a blue Meconopsis from seed twice. As expected: failure. They didn’t like our hot and humid summers. A few hours of driving north from here brings you to Quebec. There they thrive. Colour me green with jealousy. Also about your ’Black Magic’ by the way. Never heard of it. Incredible! ”… as of today”, did you get a plant? Seed? Congratulations anyway!

To be pedantic, Papaver cambrica was put into Meconopsis because of it's stigma looking more similar to Meconopsis. DNA testing has shown it nestled in Papaver.

I am not really certain that atlanticum and rupifragum are even particularly different tbf - I admit to a fair bit of confusion around poppy nomenclature. I swear I have grown Turkish poppies under the names pilosum, spicata, hedriechii and trinisomething - all identical (and somewhat bizarre tbf) Nonetheless, the single atlanticum is becoming a bit of a thug at the allotment whereas the semi-double 'orange feathers' (which I grew as rupifragum) has been quite a bit more reticent to spread around. Same with the small pink poppies with the long winded title of p. dubium sub.sp lecoquii albiflorum - the clutch of 8 or so has never really expanded beyond it's space.

I agree, welsh poppies are a delight...despite being a weedy pest. I only have them in the garden though - not at all keen for them to run amok at the allotment. I did have a really lush red one - "Frances Perry' but failed to keep it separate so I have a mish-mash - from red, orange, golden yellow to bright acidic lemon.

Yep, have attempted many blue meconops...as well as regia, paniculata, nepaulensis etc.etc. I wanted the foliage as much as the flowers but nope, too dry, too hot, too diffiicult. Managed to grow a couple of them (Lingholm, and a purple one (quintuplinervia?) ...but they never return after the first year of bloom, even after bravely disbudding.

Had never heard of Black Magic either...but I did a plant sale today and came home with one (and a couple of other interesting gems such as calandrina 'Darcie's Dream, patrinia gibbosa, another anthemis Susannah Mitchell after losing mine this winter and, riskily, a gold leaved convallaris majalis 'Mary Bolton' (the vendor swore it was not a spreader).

That is the kind of plant sale I need! Or wait: maybe not… Too dangerous. I had to look up most of them. Wow, enjoy!

I started a new perennial planting at a public bed in our alottment last fall, had prepared thoses for a while. I had noticed that there were quite a lot poppies growing among the green manure

so, I fell behind with the weeding this spring, had to step up to save the young Asters, Geranium etc which are much slower and pulled a ton of weeds and unwanted poppies (with buds and few flowers), stored them in a whell barrow untill I chop them for the compost, guess what those lovely things started flowering and looked like this one week later

(and so you know I left some where they did not bully young perennials)

Black Peony poppy

It has a similar color to rose Ebb Tide but deeper, and bigger

Another black peony poppy. It is a single this time and I like it better than the fill double