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15 Red Oriental Poppy SEEDS
**Beautifully Stunning Blooms**

'Papaver Orientale' (Oriental poppy) is a perennial flowering plant. Huge, bright, beautifully stunning, scarlet-orange flowers feature black blotches at the base of each petal. Plants bloom profusely in May and June from the year after the seed is sown.

Oriental poppies throw up a mound of finely cut, hairy foliage in spring. After flowering the foliage dies away entirely, a property that allows their survival in the summer drought of Central Asia. Late-developing plants can be placed nearby to fill the developing gap. Fresh leaves appear with autumn rains.

Papaver orientale has a hardiness zone of 3-8 average. It usually thrives in light soil and in full sun or part shade. Seeds are sown after the potential of frost has passed, the average temperature has risen and when soil has thoroughly warmed. Germination period is 10–20 days. Mulch can be used to protect the plant over the winter and cutting off the stem will produce a second flower.