Lauren's Dark Grape Heirloom Poppy Flower Seeds

Poppy - Lauren's Dark Grape Papaver paeoniflorum & laciniatum Annual - Absolutely showy 4 - 5" chalice-shaped flowers with satiny petals that glow in the most delicious shade of deep ruby-purple. These strong, heirloom poppies grow 3 - 5' tall, depending on how rich your soil is. With their big, lettuce-like, blue-gray leaves and port wine colored flowers, Lauren's Grape is a highlight of the spring garden. These beautiful flowers easily self sow to shine again every season. 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

• Plant type: Hardy Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• 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: Does Not Require Support
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: very finely
• Germination: 7-14 Days
• Height At Maturity: 3-5 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 8-10"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Lauren's Dark Grape Heirloom 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 Lauren's Dark Grape Heirloom 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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