Blue Himalayan Poppy grown by Nina

Photo: Nina Pope 19.05.10

Photo: Lydia Thornley 16.04.10

Photo: Nina Pope 07.08.09

Blue Himalayan Poppy grown by Nina

Poppy, Blue Himalayan (Meconopsis grandis)

Herbaceous Perennial - Edible?: Inedible

In Sunday 5th July 2009

  • Donated by Karen (Lawson Park), Mon 1st Dec '08
  • Sown Outdoors by Nina, Sun 7th Dec '08
  • Planted Out by Nina, Sun 5th Jul '09
  • Seed Collected by Nina, Sat 10th Jul '10
    Ready to start a new round of home-grown plants!
  • Sown Outdoors by Nina, Sun 15th Aug '10
    I sow this seed as soon as possible after harvesting and then over winter seedlings
  • Potted On by Nina, Thu 31st Mar '11
    I had another bumper crop of seedlings - for plant sales as our Spring Event this year!

The seeds for these came from Karen's garden at Lawson Park, I had a fluke easy germination with them - Nina

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Fingers crossed for this one, if it makes it through for next year they will be stunning.

We will be the envy of gardeners all over the south if we get these blue beauties to perform at Abbey Gardens next year!

They've made it through the winter!! There was a scary point at the start of the year when they were completely invisible but now they're back - could they flower for 'open squares' ?!

I know it's a tiny bit sad but I really like having this record of the plants I personally have lovingly grown. These blue poppies are a real favourite - the seeds came from plants in Karen's garden (which she in turn no doubt grew from seed!) and I then grew the first plants we had at the garden. Today (three years on) I gave my Gran some new plants grown from the next generation of gathered seeds, the rest will be for sale at this weekends Spring Event.

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