Seedball - Poppy

The native red common poppy.

• 20 balls per tin, 100 seeds per ball.
• Easy to use, simply scatter on top of soil in a garden bed or planter.
• Best scattered in Autumn. Sprouts seen in 4-6 weeks.

*Thanks to Seedball customer Gill Hickman for poppy pics*

Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
A bright red flowering annual - hugely popular and often used as a symbol of remembrance.
Height: 30-60cm
Flowers: May to July
The remembrance poppy is the common field poppy, one of the first wildflowers to colonise disturbed ground or fallow cornfields. It became identified with the battle zones of the First World War, or Flanders Fields, which were originally corn fields.