Best Of The Bunch; POPPY.POPPIES provide a brilliant burst of summer colour in wild flower settings, among meadow grasses or planted in beds and borders where their fragile-looking tissue paper blooms can be admired in all their colourful glory. There are many types of poppy poppy, common name for some members of the Papaveraceae, a family composed chiefly of herbs of the Northern Hemisphere having a characteristic milky or colored sap. - annuals, biennials and perennials for virtually every setting - so check the label before you buy. Some self-seed freely, while others, such as the field poppy and opium poppy opium poppy Flowering plant (Papaver somniferum) of the family Papaveraceae, native to Turkey. Opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin are all derived from the milky fluid found in its unripe seed capsule. A common garden annual in the U.S. , look great left to naturalise on banks. Good varieties include Papaver orientale 'Patty's Plum', a perennial which produces stunning mauve blooms, and P. nudicaule 'Meadow Pastels', which produces a mix of reds, orange, gold lemon and cream shades. |
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