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« on: June 24, 2011, 10:20:51 PM » |
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Photographed on the way to Loony's workshop, just outside Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Traditional red poppies, growing wild in front of a field of cultivated white poppies.
If I remember right, the white ones are grown to produce a cooking oil from their seeds.
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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2011, 10:21:37 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2011, 10:36:41 PM » |
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got some growing near us amongst some oil seed rape
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2011, 08:02:43 AM » |
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2011, 08:38:23 PM » |
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The ones you're thinking of are purple cabman!
That's a really beautiful picture Andy!
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2011, 06:28:59 PM » |
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We have some orange and yellow ones growing out of some block paving which i will have to relay soon. Anyone know what to do to collect/keep the seed so I can get them going somewhere else?
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2011, 06:35:05 PM » |
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put a paper bag over the seed pods when all the flowers have gone secure with string and when they have dried out they explode and leave the seeds in the bag dry them out in the bags and sew next spring
hope this helps
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2011, 07:03:00 PM » |
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Cheers mate,Joyce will be pleased,she loves em  |
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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2011, 07:50:41 PM » |
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We have some orange and yellow ones growing out of some block paving which i will have to relay soon. Anyone know what to do to collect/keep the seed so I can get them going somewhere else?
They`re Ca;ifornia Poppies you`ve got there. We`ve got Sh**loads of em in our garden. We tried to give some to my mother in law, seeds and cuttings and they all died. We don`t have to do anything at all with `em. Try lifting a few by the roots you might be successful as they grow on your land anyway. |
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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2011, 08:20:57 PM » |
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Taz has a paper bag full of mixed poppy seeds in the greenhouse, including some of the white ones from the field in my photo. No guarantee they'll grow, but I'm sure she could spare a few if you want to give 'em a go.
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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2011, 08:23:45 PM » |
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I seriously thought the white ones are grown for pharmaceutical companies, I`m almost certain I`m right, sure they used to deliver them to Pfizer at Sandwich in Kent.
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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2011, 08:33:05 PM » |
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cabby,, dont you meen chrocus,s they youse there seeds to make ,colchicine, which is used to treat inflamation of the joints and gout and such..
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« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2011, 06:36:02 PM » |
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Thanks everyone,will try all advice  |
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« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2011, 11:34:24 PM » |
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