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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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got some growing near us amongst some oil seed rape

Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

The ones you're thinking of are purple cabman!

That's a really beautiful picture Andy!

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?

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
kevsky titsmuch

Cheers mate,Joyce will be pleased,she loves em  :D

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.

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.

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.

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..

Thanks everyone,will try all advice  ;)

check this.......................


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed)