Have you grown these in pots

[Chuckles]

I'm getting a little fed up with my Oriental Poppies taking up so much room in the garden for such a short flower period, have got 3 largish clumps of them. Wee I think you mentioned somewhere that they take up a huge space too

Has anyone grown them in pots at all ?

The idea would be to let them have there flowering time in a pot placed on the garden and then move them and allow them to die back naturally in the pot until next year or maybe just keep them in pots on the edge of the path or something. I love to see them and don't really want to get rid of them but they are doing my head in.

[Deleted]

Great idea Chuckles, but poppies hate any root disturbance.

[Tig]

I hack mine back after they have flowered, they reshoot and occassionaly give me a second flush of flowers

[Rosefriend]

I did that years ago and I am afraid they don't like it at all. They will stay in a large pot (deep roots) for a long time but won't be trransplanted. I dug the whole clump up and I was still getting rid of them 3 years later.

They really are lovely but they do tend to take over - Tig's idea is good - wish I had thought of that.

RF

[Weeterrier]

I get really fed up with them, especially in this wet windy weather, as their beauty hasn't made up for the mess for long enough. Trouble is, as RF says, it is almost impossible to get rid of them. One tiny bit of root, and up they come. A pot would be a good idea, but I have never thought of it.
BTW, there is a new breed of Oriental Poppy, which stands up straight. My neighbour has one, and it is a corker.

[Chuckles]

Glad I'm not the only one feeling the same Wee, it's a bit of a love/hate relationship with them isn't it I do chop mine down, infact I did it the other day and it leaves a flippin great gap prob 2' diameter. I've never got a second lot of blooms though Tig I look at the space and think I could have several other plants in that space that would put on a longer show of flowers.

Suppose we are never happy ;D

[Cheerypeabrain]

They are very beautiful...but I have the same problem. When you have a restricted amount of space they tend to stick out like a sore thumb. It took me three years to dig some out a while ago...and like a numpty I've planted one again this year....free seeds you know.

Once they've flowered...out they come...hopefully ;D

[Chuckles]

Well I've outed two big clumps today and popped them in a bucket with a drop of water until I decide what to do with them. I feel terribly guilty but they had tobe dug out. I see what you all mean about the roots they are like Amenome roots aren't they, long tap roots with not much else and I reckon they go down for miles ;D

[Ladygardener]

I think sometimes you just have to be ruthless Chuckles don't you. You could anyhow try sowing their seed in pots next year if you still want them somewhere.

[Ladygardener]

Funny how things happen. A few weeks ago my son-in-law gave me some tiny poppy plants he'd grown from seed and did'nt get a chance to plant. I had nowhere for them really so popped them into the pot which I'd harvested shallots from. They've come on a real treat and are doing great in their pot. I would'nt actually have planted them in a pot but I'm glad I did. :)This is one of them in bloom.

[andy]

That's a very pretty poppy LNG. I have a gorgeous, but invasive orange poppy just like that aswell as the welsh poppy (mecanopsis cambrica) at work

[Barbara]

Jun 28, 2008 21:32:51 GMT Chuckles said:

Well I've outed two big clumps today and popped them in a bucket with a drop of water until I decide what to do with them. I feel terribly guilty but they had tobe dug out. I see what you all mean about the roots they are like Amenome roots aren't they, long tap roots with not much else and I reckon they go down for miles ;D

they are like arnie, they will be back

[Ladygardener]

Thank you for saying so Andy. They're all lovely colours including the scarlet.

[Chuckles]

Thats a lovely coloured Poppy LNG and has reminded me I have some packets of seeds somewhere, must sow some in some of my established pots and see how they do.

The bucket of the big Orientals I dug up has now got semi filled with rain and I noticed that there is new growth showing so I'll have to find them a home I just can't leave them to drowned

[Ladygardener]

Thank you for saying so Chuckles. Tell me, is it not too late to sow poppies now?
I think oriental poppies are lovely Chuckles. I bought some for my daughter but they somehow died.

[Missredhead]

I sowed some in a pot a couple of weeks ago and just left them in my little plastic GH...they are now about 3ins tall and I have just put them on the patio....

I have lots of seeds left just in case they die off.

[Chuckles]

LNG, I've just looked at the packets I have of Californian Eschscholzia and Fairy Wings and it says..... Sow inside Apr May Sow outside Aug Sept. I'm sure I've got some called Strawberry Fields too but can't lay my hands on the packet atm

[Ladygardener]

MRH / Chuckles that's great, I never knew you could sow them so late. I still have so much to learn. I might try sowing some of my harvested seed from the burgundy frills and see what happens. ;D