Shirley poppies

beautiful bloom,i love the colour.

Lovel the colours and wonderful display such a pretty flower.

I put about fifty of these in and these are the only two pale ones, all the rest have been shades of red and orange, nothing like the seed packet. What's new, lol.

Did you buy them fromT&M if so it would nt be unusual.

I'll have a look in the morning.

Ok I see tomorrow quite a few people on here have had bad experience with them even Spritzhenry has only one flower out of a packet full from T&M

Never heard of "Shirley Poppies" but they do look nice.

Oops. Morgana - forgot to look - will try to remember tomorrow. Age related, don't you know.

To day I went to a pound shop and guess what I bought 2 for a pound yes seeds and what was there but yes this flower, so now Toto can see for himself that they do exsist :o)) I will do a blog on what seed I bought.

I finally remembered to look at the packet and it's Mr Fothergills, Morgana.

Ha ha this one is called country value, so we will see which one is the best provider, strange as Mr Fothergills is normally a good name

Well, germination was certainly very good - it's just the range of colours that are annoying - or lack of I should say.

Yes, I have noticed that in the past, they are not what they say in variety of colours, with other seeds.

Pretty though, but annoying as well, never heard of them before.

A vicar bred them from the wild field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, Daisy, and his parish was in Shirley,

Ahhhh I think I saw something about this on T.V. some time ago?

I think it was dear ol Geoff on Gardeners World. though I'm sure they must have been on more recently than that, lol.