How to grow Oriental Poppies from Seeds

Are you an experimented gardener and are tired of the same plants, would you like to change the type of plants you have been growing and develop the beauty of your precious garden? Well these are one of the finest seeds that you will find in the poppy family. You may be asking how a flower that has been represented as the flower of the death could increase the beauty in a garden, well that means you have never met the Oriental poppy.

These poppy is not so different from the others, but does certainly have some characteristics that makes the difference between the others, for example the flower petals blooming, delights the eye of the gardener and viewers with an intense pink to red orange or brick red flowers, making it an outstanding selection between all of the brothers it has, like the California poppy or the Iceland poppy, just to name a few.

This flower is considered in the family of the Papaveraceae as one of the biggest, which gives the petals of the flower more color and attraction for the gardens.

And the oriental poppies are not plants that need special care or treatment to grow; they as any other plant need sun and water to grow up. Many people know, but specially gardeners, that plants can be grown from their seeds or from the plant itself and it does not vary that much. Both procedures need the same conditions to grow up the flowers, but one of them takes more time than the other, of course the one that starts with the seeds. Here are some general conditions that you should be aware of to begin the planting of your Oriental poppy seeds.

Starting with weather conditions, this is a flower that usually lives in warm weathers, so the first thing you should consider is that the place where you are going to plant the oriental poppy seeds will have plenty of light and water. If you are reading this in the wrong time of the year, like Winter or Fall, it will be disappointing to remember that the best time to grow oriental poppies is in the spring and summer. Now that you know how the environment should be for the Oriental poppy seeds, well you now may proceed to sow them in the earth, then cover them with a layer of warm moist soil, just to avoid the seeds to be blown away with the wind. You should also prepare organic compost (that is an amount of organic decomposed wastes) to use them as fertilizers if you don’t want to waste in chemical ones. If you take good care of the seeds, they will grow up until they transform into the beautiful big red flowers they are.