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Absolutely stunning 4 to 5 inch chalice-shaped flowers with satiny petals that glow in the most delicious shade of deep ruby-purple. These outstanding, heirloom poppies grow 3 to 5 feet tall, depending on how rich your soil is. With their big, lettuce-like, blue-gray leaves and port wine colored flowers, Lauren’s Grape is a highlight of the spring garden. These beautiful flowers easily self sow to shine again every season. This variety puts on a particularly sensational show in the garden. Magnificent wine-colored blooms and misty blue-green lettuce-leaf-type foliage creates a bold contrast. This dramatic poppy is a garden designer’s dream. It comes as no surprise that the variety was carefully selected and bred by Lauren Springer, a well-known garden designer and author! Lauren’s painterly style shines through in this bold, grape-purple poppy, perfect for creating whimsical landscapes! The clouds of purple blooms are ultra-attractive to pollinators, especially bees. These poppy seeds grow beautiful 4 to 5 inch chalice-shaped medium to dark wine-purple flowers with satiny petals on 36 to 48+ inch stems, depending on how rich your soil is. Lauren's Grape Poppy is an annual herb that blooms summer to early fall, with attractive seed pods extending the season of interest. Highly ornamental, the plant sets extraordinary plum purple flowers with deep purple spots on their crepe papery, tissue-like petals. Borne singly on long, bristly stems, the showy saucer-shaped blooms work well as cut flowers. In the garden, they attract pollinating bees. Lauren's Grape is a Papaver somniferum cultivar, commonly called breadseed poppy. The flowers freely self-seed in suitable conditions, naturalizing and returning from year to year, performing more like a perennial than an annual. Lauren's Grape is shown to best effect when grouped or massed in borders or beds. Extremely low maintenance, Lauren's Grape Poppy grows best in temperate climates in locations with full sun and organically rich, medium moist, well-draining soils. It tolerates drought once established but is intolerant of overly wet, poorly drained soils. Deadheading spent flowers keeps the poppy blooming and reduces unwanted self-seeding. Deer and rabbit resistant. Growing poppies from seed is easy. Direct sow poppy seed in spring or start seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the last frost date and transplant after the threat of frost has passed. These poppies germinate best when air temperature is around 55°F and soil temperature is between 60° and 65°F. In warm climates, seeds can be sown in late fall for an early spring bloom. |
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Plant poppy seeds in the fall or late spring / early summer after frost. Our seeds are already stratified and are ready to plant. Poppies prefer a temperature range of between 55 and 75 degrees fahrenheit. Poppies can withstand colder temperatures, but do poorly above 80 degrees.
Soak the seeds in water for 24 hours. Allow them to dry a bit for a few minutes in order to avoid water-logging the soil, as poppies do not do well in overly damp soil.
Select a sunny spot with well draining, sandy type soil. Poppies love the full sun but do not do well in temperatures above 80 degrees fahrenheit.
Scatter seeds and very gently rake to distribute. Cover with no more than 1/16" of soil. Poppies need sunlight for germination.
Mist the soil whenever it appears dry. Do not soak the soil. Germination occurs in 7-14 days (up to a month with certain varieties such as the China White strain). Germination efficiency and success is dependent on the conditions listed above.
Water sparingly with a misting bottle (do not pour water onto seedlings). Reduce the frequency of watering once seedlings reach 2-3” high as they do not like damp growing conditions. The most frequent cause of seedling failure is over-watering, which allows a fertile basis for fungal and mildew growth which often leads to seedling failure.
Do not plant in really hot weather. These seeds DO NOT like to germinate in summer-like weather. Poppies are a cold weather plant, and as such the best planting time for planting is fall-thru-late spring (depending on your location).
Poppies do not do well as transplants. If these must be transplanted, it is best to begin them in peat pods so that the entire pod can be carefully transplanted into a spot in which the roots will not be affected during transplanting.
