Type: Annual summer flower
Height: 30-40cm
Placement: Full sun
Quantity: Min. 75 seeds
Germination rate: 95%
Plant spacing: 10x10cm
Colour: Orange
Sowing: April-May at 1cm depth
Flowering: July-October.
California poppy is a must-have in the lush flower garden, because it just keeps on producing an abundance of the most beautiful sun-orange flowers. At first, the plant forms a cone-shaped sheath, which it sheds when the flower unfolds its petals. The plant is very vigorous and it is incredible how many flowers it can create in just one season. California poppy is basically a perennial, but in Denmark it does not survive the frost, so here it is considered an annual. If you have it in pots that are brought inside over the winter, it may survive and make it through another season.
The flower is also called the "four o'clock flower" because the flowers "close" in the afternoon.
