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An exquisite cut flower with peachy tissue-paper-like 15cm large blooms they are just stunning. A citrusy scent and abundant flowering habit stretching from early spring through midsummer make them a highly prized cutting garden addition. Technically considered a hardy perennial, poppies can survive even the coldest winters, but because they don’t do well in high heat, they are often grown as a hardy annual or biennial.
A tricky one to grow from seed
Italian-bred poppies for the cut flower market
Featuring enormous flowers with a tissue-paper texture in translucent white through to apricot-peach tones tones
An improvement on standard Iceland Poppy varieties; however, it is noted that plants may have lower yields due to oversized flower heads
Approximate stem length to 30cm+
Note: Harmful if eaten/skin & eye irritant
Poppy Colibri Rose Chiaro Pastello
CROP TIME: Expect Spring blooms. They usually start blooming just as tulips are finishing, and continue until summer heat shuts them down.
PLANTING DENSITY: 15-30cm spacing to allow for good air circulation.
Use a good fertiliser with sufficent nitrogen to encourage and establish growth on planting.
Keep watering up during all stages, vegatative growth, hook stage and flowering and post harvest
HARVEST: Harvest daily at split bud stage or as soon as you can see the flower colour appearing on the bud
There is a lot of talk about searing or burning the ends of poppies to seal in their milky sap. An alternative, is to pick them and store dry in a closed cardboard box in your fridge. The stem will naturally seal itself. When you are ready to use the stems, stand them up in clean water in the fridge. They will start to open by the following morning. You can store dry flowers for up to a week with little decline in vase life.
Short lived perennial/ hardy annual.