California poppies add a burst of orange to your landscape. They are easy to grow from seed, and will return year after year.
BLOOM TIME: Late Spring – Early Fall
- HARDINESS ZONE: 6 – 10 (and reseeds itself easily)
- PLANT HEIGHT: 12 – 18″ . . . PLANT SPACING: 6 – 9″
- LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun . . . SOIL / WATER: Average – Dry
- Poppies attract bees, butterflies, and birds. The huge showy 2 – 4 inches blooms make them an excellent cut flower, and their unique looking seed pods are splendid in dried arrangements or for crafts. They are known in folk medicine as a mild sedative and analgesic. The California Poppy is a protected species, and there is a $500 per plant fine for destroying them!
