| Name: | Beauty of Livermere Oriental Poppy |
| Botanical Name: | Papaver orientale |
| Life Cycle: | Perennial |
| Colour: | Red |
| Bloom Season: | Spring/Summer |
| Height: | Up to 36 Inches |
| Light Requirement: | Sun |
| Sowing Method: | Direct Sow |
How to Care for Oriental Poppies:
Once planted, these beauties don’t like to move. Don’t plant them in soggy ground. They hate wet feet. Do fertilize them, but only once a year. Oriental Poppies do not handle transplanting or over-watering well. The germination period is 10–20 days. Mulch can be used to protect the plant over the winter.
Medicinal Use: Oriental poppy is in the same family as the opium poppy and has mild sedative and analgesic properties but is not narcotic. It helps to normalize the nervous system function to ease nervous tension, anxiety, insomnia, and pain both internal and external. Small doses calm the mind without depressing the central nervous system.
Watering: Outdoor beds can be watered once a week by flood irrigation.
Height: Oriental Poppy usually grows about a foot high
Feeding: Fresh compost should be added to soil at the time of planting is given every 15 days along with vermicompost.
Plant care: Poppies are very hardy plants, and can even withstand severe frost.
Bloom time: Poppies take about 2.5 to 3 months to bloom after sowing.
***Pro Tip*** Provide Oriental Poppies with rich and fertile soil as they are heavy feeders.
Kishore Dhumil –
Well, my seeds have germinated and plants got huge but very less flowers.
Sharon_R –
Speedy delivery. Nice packaging but no growing instruction.
Sudha Mahajan –
I bought 2 packages of Red Poppy seeds, I do believe that there were lots of seeds but I got less than half plants germinated.
Kundan Jha –
They are different from normal poppies,