Buttercream California Poppy Flower Seeds

Poppy (California) - Buttercream (Heirloom)- Eschscholtzia californica Perennial/ Grown as Annual - This lovely and unusual California poppy has silky-soft, buttercream colored blossoms. Easy to grow, the abundant paper-thin blossoms nod in the wind and shine for weeks above mounded plants with feathery gray-green foliage. Like all California poppies, Buttercream is carefree and very forgiving of poor soil. Suited to a neglected area or hard to cultivate slope, or simply grow them for a joyful garden display with a natural ambience. Soil & Water: Sow seeds directly into a finely textured, well-drained garden bed in full sun as early in spring as the ground can be worked.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Eschscholtzia californica
• Plant type: Perennial
• Growth habit: Low Growing
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Soil & Water: Sow seeds directly into a finely textured, well-drained garden bed in full sun as early in spring as the ground can be worked.
• Recorded feature: Good Cut Flower
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/4"
• Germination: 7-14 Days
• Height At Maturity: 12-15"
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 6"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Buttercream California Poppy Flower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Place Buttercream California Poppy Flower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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