Orange Horned Poppy 'Auranticum'

Orange Horned Poppy 'Auranticum'

Fancy flowers and seed pods.

 
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The poppy like flowers with papery, brilliant orange petals open freely from late spring and throughout summer. The blooms are followed by long, narrow, curved, horn like seed heads which make a nice and lasting garden feature.

The deeply lobed, blue green leaves of the Orange Horned Poppy are thick and leathery, with a wax like coating. They grow 15-30cm long and form a dense rosette at the base of the plant.

The Orange Horned Poppy is dry tolerant and will grow well in poor soils. It is well suited to coastal locations and loves a sunny spot.
It is a short lived perennial that will set viable seed for generations to come. You could also collect and sow or share.

There is a poem about this particular Poppy, which grows native, along the coastline of Mediterranean Europe:

A poppy grows upon the shore,
Bursts her twin cups in summer late:
Her leaves are glaucus-green and hoar,
Her petals yellow, delicate.
She has no lovers like the red,
That dances with the noble corn:
Her blossoms on the waves are shed,
Where she stands shivering and forlorn.
Robert Bridges (Britain's Poet laureate 1913-1930)


Supplied as: Pots
Size: 10 cm

Code

GLFAT

Botantical name

Glaucium flavum

Height

30-50cm

Width

30-40cm

Flowers

Late spring to summer

Climate

Cool to Mediterranean

Availability

Australia wide

Frost hardiness

Fully Hardy

Aspect

Full Sun

Supplied as

Pots

Size

10 cm

Water needs

1