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Growing Poppies Decorative

Poppy pods are distinguished for their colors and shapes that make them valuable for use in floral arrangements. Growing poppies decorative offer a great flexibility because they are available in a variety of sizes ranging from small (less than ½ inch) to large (more than 7 inches). Poppies also have a wide variety in colors from light tan to purple and silver. Besides floral arrangements poppies are also used in many other ways.

Growing poppies decorative can become a very relaxing hobby because they do not require special cares since they are strong plants that almost never are bothered by pests or diseases. Only aphids may attack young poppy plants in bud leaving a downy mildew, however it is easy to remove them by spraying poppy plants with a hard stream of water.

Also consider as a good idea to place poppies not to close together to permit plenty of air circulation. These practices will prevent fungal growth.

Growing poppies decorative will let your garden look beautiful with colored vibrant flowers with a variety of over 400 species, most of them herbaceous and a few shrubs, that grow in many different climates all over the world.

One beautiful example is the California Poppy that grows in California´s “Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve”, one of the most unique parks. The Poppy Reserve is dedicated to preserve the state´s famed species of poppy, the California Poppy. In this 1745-acre state park the state flower of California grows undisturbed even though the park does not water the poppies nor provides any other maintenance; giving this way a guarantee that the field is totally natural. Sheep used to live amidst the poppies, but they were relocated in the early 1970s since the California Poppy prefers to grow in an unrestrained environment. The only maintenance provided by the park is prescribed burns to prevent devastating wild fires.

The Red Poppy is the most recognizable symbol for disabled veterans of many countries. This beautiful flower has been appreciated for thousands of years. There is a tradition of associating the poppy with disabled veterans that originated in World War I with John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields the poppies grow”, one of the most memorable war poems ever written, a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in 1915. This poem placed this simple flower in history. If you have seen The Wizard of Oz then you will remember Dorothy falling asleep in a field of poppies; maybe they were opium poppies.

Among the many species of poppies in the garden books there is one you won’t find growing legally in the United States, the Papaver Somniferum, the opium poppy. Only the seeds from this species are legal on the spice counters and in muffins and breads in the bakeries.

The pods of this somniferum contain opium latex with an alkaloid named morphine, which is the basis to produce heroine, codeine, moscapine, papaverine and thebaine.

The seeds do not contain the drug but they will cause a positive reading in a urinalysis test for drugs. This flower is illegal to possess in the United States but you can grow the related California Poppy (Eschscholzia Californica) that has proven to be a good remedy for insomnia, nervousness, anxiety, incontinence and colic.

Growing poppies decorative have also been inspiration for works of art. Some of the better known is Claude Monet’s “Poppy Fields at Argentuil” and more recently Yvonne Kirk has produced her vision of the poppy.