Poppies.

I have loads of large purple poppies that have appeared from nowhere too. Some are in an okay place so may leave but I've allowed the others to flower but will pull up before they set seed.

I had a similar problem, I gathered a whole potful of poppy and other seed heads from our local park where they lay carpets of wild flower seeds. I sprinkled loads all over a bed thinking it would emulate the beautiful Summer display in the park and nothing at all grew not one. Very odd.

I have loads of purple poppies that I have now pulled dried the heads and the seeds are all ready to throw down in the spring time I also have smaller red wild poppies and also a beautiful huge self seeded Californian poppy with hundreds of heads that have been flowering for two months now The birds must have given me this one

.lthese were thrown down in my alleyway by my fence along with marigold seeds I salvedged

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Sorry missed the photos

You may have loads next year, gmelon. For some reason they can take a while to establish. We have clumps all over our field and I never know where they're going to crop up.

Just leave the ground undisturbed and see what happens.

I think it's something to do with disturbing them and the soil at the start of spring. Possibly!

Lovely garden photos .
I'll wait and see if they pop up next year.
Or maybe buy seeds?
kittylester There hasn't been time to disturb any soil this year. The garden is very tidy but definitely a work in progress.

I bought some corms for large poppies of different colours and none grew! I think it was because we had a very wet spell.