Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’

Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’

£6.00

2 in stock

Potsize – 1L

Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’. A lovely evergreen perennial poppy for the cottage garden. All through the summer the rosettes throw double flowers of tissue thin petals in tangerine orange , nodding on long tall stems. regular dead-heading increases greatly the number of blooms. Will definitely add more to the garden than the small amount of space it uses up would warrant. 45cm high. Easy to grow in a sunny spot. April to August

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Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’

A lovely evergreen perennial poppy for the cottage garden. All through the summer the rosettes throw double flowers of tissue thin petals in tangerine orange , nodding on long tall stems. regular dead-heading increases greatly the number of blooms. Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’ will definitely add more to the garden than the small amount of space it uses up would warrant. 45cm high. Easy to grow in a sunny spot. April to August

Oriental Poppies are a real hit of blousy extravagance for the early season, but need careful placement to work in the garden. They have an unusual seasonal growth pattern, starting into leafy growth in late Summer. They go all winter as a leafy mound which then throws the flowering stems in May to June, after which they disappear for a Summer sleep. This can make them difficult to buy in a pot as the effort of flowering robs the leaves and they usually look atrocious just when customers want to choose them by colour. (Much better to buy them off a reputable website with lovely photographs !). In the garden plant them where a later flowering plant can flop into the space they vacate during summer. Some suggest planting them behind Asters. Gertrude Jekyll used to plant them in front of large Hostas They often need staking, but, in my opinion, look a lot better flopping forward in decadent abandon. Grow in any deep well drained soil, preferably in full sun.

There is an interesting history to the first white oriental poppy, ‘Perry’s White’. Oriental Poppies were initially just red until in 1905 Amos Perry, by chance, found the salmon pink P. ‘Mrs Perry’. He sowed many self-crosses hoping for a white, but none came. In 1912 a customer of his was planting a fashionable pink border, pale at the edges building to a rich scarlet at the centre. He supplied all the plants and retired satisfied. However in 1913 he received an irate letter saying that instead of the startling red centrepiece poppy there had arrived ‘a nasty fat white one’. He went along promptly to investigate and swapped the offending white with some montbretias. Papaver ‘Perry’s White’ had been found.

The poppy has long been associated with sleep. In Othello, Iago says

‘Not poppy, nor mandragora

Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world

Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

Which thou ownd’st yesterday…’

The Opium Poppy, Papavaer somnifera has been the source of comfort and misery for generations. The raw material obtained from scratching the seed pods is the illegally traded basis of heroin. However, when refined into Morphia it is the basis of many pain relieving drugs such as codeine. Morphia often forms the basis of cough remedies as is works as a suppressant on the part of the brain responsible for coughing.

Papaver is the original Roman name for poppies. Poppy is derived from the Anglo Saxon ‘popig’, a corruption of the Latin.

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