Angels' Choir Shirley Poppy

This award-winning combination of silken-petaled, double poppies features shimmering watercolor shades including cream, apricot, peach, coral, lavender, pink and bicolors and picotees. It took breeders years to develop these lustrous soft colors. Angel’s Choir poppies are exquisite in the garden as the blossoms sway gracefully on nodding 3 foot tall stems above frothy gray-green foliage. These easy-to-grow and irresistible flowers are the perfect way to welcome the joys of spring. Papaver rhoeas

Characteristics: 

• Gardens of Watercolor Blossoms is what you find here
• Frost hardy
• Re-seeding annual 
• Loves rich garden soil
  
• 2'-3 tall
• .2 gram (~2000 seeds)
  

Instructions - Sow seeds directly into a finely textured garden bed in full sun as early in spring as ground can be worked. To help space the fine seeds, mix with dry sand before sowing. Cover very lightly with fine soil and keep seed bed moist as seedlings emerge over 7 to 14 days Poppies can be started indoors as transplants but direct seeding is best and HIGHLY Recommended

• Direct Seed 1/4" deep
• Germination 10-15 days
• Thin 8-10" apart

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