Poppies in Australian Gardens: Oriental, Iceland, and California

Poppies in Australian Gardens: Oriental, Iceland, and CaliforniaPoppies provide some of the most vivid and ephemeral colour of the Australian spring — grown from direct seeding in autumn, they reward the patient gardener with masses of silky flowers from August through November.Getting StartedSow direct in autumn — poppies resent transplanting. Scatter seeds on prepared soil and rake in lightly. Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule) are the most widely grown for cool temperate Australian garde…