DESCRIPTION:

NAME: California Poppy 'Carmine King'

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eschscholzia californica

COLOR: Dark pink with white edges and yellow centers

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost

PLANT HEIGHT: 12 - 18"

PLANT SPACING: 12 - 15"

BLOOM TIME: All Summer

HARDINESS ZONE: 6 - 10 (& itself easily, so it acts like a perennial in all zones)

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average - Dry

QUANTITY: 500 Seeds

OTHER: Poppies attract bees, butterflies, and birds. The huge showy 2 - 4" blooms make them an excellent cut flower, and their unique looking seed pods are splendid in dried arrangements or for crafts. They are known in folk medicine as a mild sedative and analgesic. The California Poppy is a protected species, and there is a $500 per plant fine for destroying them!

We have several other individual colors of California Poppy seeds as well as mixed colors, & 60 types of Poppy seeds total from around the globe!

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