Gardening Tips & Flowers : How to Grow California Poppy (Eschscholzia Californica)
Tips, Tricks
California poppy, or eschscholzia califronica, is a plant that should be started by seed in the spring. Grow California poppy and let them reseed themselves every year with instructions from a sustainable gardener in this free video series on flower gardening and plant care. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
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If you live in California they should be sown in the fall. The fall rains will help establish a tap root that will allow the plant to survive the dry summer and bloom again the following year. Her advice might be valid if you live back east. I don't know. I've only grown them in California.
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NOT TRUE that the plants don't come back. My poppies have come back every year for the last several seasons! The plants spring up from the center of the original plant! (Maybe I'm just lucky !) I live in Nevada and poppies do well here. WOULD like to know if cutting them back prolongs blooms. They get floppy around mid-summer and the blossoms are smaller. I guess I'll experiment with a couple plants, but I don't want to harm the plants either! Sometimes cutting back certain plants kills them off! I have heard you shouldn't fertilize or over-water. Mine get a good soaking once a week. I didn't plant from seed, but purchased them in pots ready-to-plant. They look great planted with lavender and yarrow.All low-maintenance plants with great color...
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wow, really learned how to plant golden poppy.
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Pretty much zero practical, useful information on CA poppy cultivation.
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I would love to hear less Eurocentric information about Native American plants.
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nice! absolutely no information ,on prolonging blooms or cutting back ,or anything a true gardener would like to know
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At school I look at Google on my iPad at school
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One big mistake in your presentation!!!! I have been growing golden poppies for over 40 years. They do keep their root systems and come back from year to year from these roots and the roots get bigger over the years.. And we used these roots for herbal purposes. You said that they don't keep their root systems.
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Im about to start my garden with this beautiful Californian poppy. =)
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I tried these, they are gorgeous, but only a few came up, so it was a total bust. They only grew where it was plowed on level ground and didn't mind the mixed in plowed up grass at all, but then I guess that's poppies for you. They didn't grow at all where I plowed on a slope, though other wildflowers did just fine. Its funny how they close at night, then open again. For my orange flowers I'm going to try planting Sulfur Cosmos instead, since it blooms after all other wildflowers have died.
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