Atlantic Poppy - Tumblr Posts

Atlantic poppy - Papaver atlanticum - a wonderful, cheery, long-blooming small scale poppy for the front of a border. It is a clump former, with leaves coming up about 8-12" and flower stalks 2-3 ft. Always well-behaved. This bright peachy orange poppy keeps on sending up flowers on single stalks for months. The individual flowers fade and wither in a couple days in warm sunny weather, but linger longer in cool misty weather. The bushy clump of grayish fuzzy foliage stays evergreen in our climate. Fully flowered segments of the clump with turn brown and need removal in late fall. And I keep dead-heading the flower stalks. They go to seed quickly so even when trimmed frequently, enough seeds get scattered around to provide babies to share with friends. Easy to gfow from seed. Not sure about dividing. Never tried that. PS this started blooming with a few flowers in mud-April.