California Poppy Seeds

Product Description

• California Poppy Seeds, Eschscholzia californica, is a small seed that packs a wonderful punch. In warm weather like its namesake California, it is a perennial, while in areas that have a winter season it acts like an annual.
• Hot to Sow: Like most wildflowers, you don’t want to bury the seed, but you want what is called seed-to-soil contact. Just tossing the seeds on the soil is not enough, you have to press them into the dirt. Again, don’t bury them, just press them into the soil like this.
• Medicinal Use: California 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.
• Approximate seed count: 20
• Height: California Poppy usually grows about a foot high
• Bloom time: Poppies take about 2.5 to 3 months to bloom after sowing.

Care Instructions

• Watering: Outdoor beds can be watered once a week by flood irrigation.
• 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.