Iceland Poppy Mix, Cool Season Blooms, Pollinator Flower

Firefly Farm & Mercantile's Iceland Poppy Mix is composed is yellows, oranges, and creamy papery blossoms.  Iceland poppy's are super easy to grow. Cast the seeds on the ground and step them into the soil for good contact. In a few weeks you will be rewarded with little plants that will give you beautiful flowers until the heat of summer. They reseed reliably. Iceland Poppies are short lived perennials, lasting 2-3 years but once established their reseeding habit makes them reliable garden flowers you can look forward to each spring and fall. Botanical name is Papaver nudicaule

Pictured here is one of our yellow poppies in our rose garden that I couldn't resist taking its picture! You often find it in wildflower mixes to help provide additional forage for pollinators. 

Characteristics: 

• Mix of yellow, orange and cream
• Frost hardy
• Re-seeding short lived perennial
• Prefers average to rich soil
• Full sun to part shade
• 1-2' tall
• .25 gram (~1500 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

Firefly Farm & Mercantile may substitute seed vendors from time to time because of the availability