{"id":7672,"date":"2020-05-30T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2020-05-30T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T15:18:41","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-151-papaver-orientale-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/plant-a-day-2020-day-151-papaver-orientale-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 150) Papaver orientale Hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The flower color of the usual Oriental poppy clashes badly with most other colors. However, it contrasts nicely with blue fowers and creates a stir with deep yellows. Luckily, I\u2019m not a good enough gardener to eliminate every clashing flower scenario I see! And some of the color variants of this plant are remarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grow these plants from seed. When we first moved to the house about 25 years ago, I grew a strain called Pizzicato, which is shorter than the type species in a mix of colors. A few of these plants still survive in our driveway bed. I started seeds of the Fruit Punch strain in 2018 for use in the memory garden. I planted out about ten plants in 2019 and they are blooming in 2020. Several of them feature nice, soft pink blooms. Others are the orange-scarlet clashing color. I\u2019m hoping for a white one or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n