- Eventual Height: 0.4m
- Eventual Spread: 0.3m
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Papaver orientale
'White Ruffles'
oriental poppy
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size: 2 litre pot
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available to order from summer 2012
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- Position: full sun
- Soil: moist, well-drained
- Rate of growth: fast growing
- Flowering period: May to June
- Flower colour: white
- Other features: dried seed heads are useful for flower arrangements
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Frilly-looking white flowers with a darkly contrasting base, appear on leafy, upright stems above the clumps of basal foliage creating textural interest in the border. After the petals have fallen, promptly cutting back the entire stem may encourage more flowers to form.
- Garden care: Cut back to ground level after flowering. Lift and divide large clumps in autumn
- Eventual Height: 0.4m
- Eventual Spread: 0.3m
Papaver orientale 'White Ruffles' - oriental poppy
Undemanding and easy to grow