One packet of more than 300 poppy seeds.

Big, bright poppies are a sensational addition to your vegetable garden. Papaver paeoniflorum, the double-flowered bread-seed poppy, grows easily in sunny gardens where it can extend a long tap-root into open, deeply dug soil. A gritty yet moisture-retaining soil, amended with some bulky organic nutrients (rotted manure, leaf mould, or compost, for example) is ideal. Tall, sunlit poppies are a common sight in and around vegetable gardens. If your garden produces good carrots, beets, radishes, or dill, it will grow wonderful poppies, too.

Seeds are collected in 2023 and 2022 from the plants shown in the pictures and others, grown in our gardens in Edmonton, Canada.

Mixed Doubles: pinks, reds, purples --- These are the big, lush "peony-flowered" poppies. Give them space. Or, in less than ideal conditions (where plants are a bit crowded, for example), blossoms may be semi-double, and the striking purple-black centres will be visible.

Seeds sown in late autumn or in winter, over bare or snow-covered ground, will germinate the following spring. If saving seeds, store them cold and dry.

Cool nights and warm days are best for germination. From early spring, sow every two weeks for months-long displays of brilliant colours. Sow again when nights turn cool in late summer and you may have flowers in autumn, right through the first light frosts.

A page of more detailed instructions and growing notes will be included with your seeds.
 

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These seeds are collected from hand-pollinated and open-pollinated plants. We hand-pollinate as much as possible so that the best colours return year after year. Bees love a poppy garden, too. They are a big reason we have all this wonderful seed. The potential for cross-pollination (when a bee visits many flowers in succession) means seed from a fringe-petalled pink flower, for example, may not produce flowers exactly the same as the flower it came from. Many of the next generation's flowers will closely resemble the seed parent, and there may also be some lovely surprises.

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A Note on Shipping

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We ship the day we receive your order, or the next business day.

Canada Post's published delivery standards: 2 to 4 business days to addresses within Canada; 4 to 7 business days to addresses outside Canada. Actual delivery times are often a few days longer.

A Note on Combined Shipping

Additional seed items ship free.

Prices are in Canadian currency. Items priced in different currencies (US and Canada) cannot be combined on the same invoice.

If you buy more than one item in the same day, and you pay for them separately, in different currencies or in the same currency, we will ship the items together.

If your order includes a "free shipping" item and an item with a shipping fee, we will refund the shipping fee.

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