I came across this annual opium poppy variety by pure fluke. My brother-in-law felled some conifers and turned over the soil beneath them and hey presto a huge swathe of lilac coloured poppies came up. He gave me some seeds.
Originally, I thought it was a variety called purple peony but was wrong. This is a truely floriferous and huge annual poppy that you grow from seed.
It will grow and seed itself everywhere although it prefers full sun and well drained soil. Just remove the young seedlings you don't want and or move them to where you want them. Do this carefully as they seem to resent root disturbance.
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