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Will it or won't it?

 
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Open up?

Someone (probably the dogs) knocked off the first flower head on my mecanopsis poppy :¬( I only got it last year so I was excited to see the flowers coming. I've stuck it in a jar on the kitchen table in the hope that it will open up.
It's not particularly useful so I'll use the excuse that the poppy seeds are edible like other poppy seeds, but between you and me the flowers are just amazing, and because they like damp cool climates with a bit of shelter they should actually grow for me...Sometimes you just need a spot of beauty to uplift the spirits in the garden. Not everything has to have big utility.
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Mecanopsis poppy casualty bud
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I vote WILL! At least I hope so. Looks to be an amazing color.

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Ooooh! I hope it will! Don't know if poppies do that. But what a pretty blue!

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Oh, I hope so!! Please keep us updated?

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As requested, here's an update on how my poppy is doing.
The bloom that got knocked off tried valiantly, but was not quite ripe enough to open fully. This was about as far as it got:

Blue-himalayan-poppy-bud-cut-flower

However, good news! The plant outside had a couple more flower shoots. Both have escaped dog damage (so far) and have flowers opening up. One only has three petals, which I don't think is typical. I'm wondering now if they are self fertile?

Blue-himalayan-poppy-flower-Skye

You can see why I couldn't resist them!

In case you were wondering that is sea beet and parsley going to seed around them.

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It's amazing to see a true blue like that. Beautiful! I would love to plant some of these, but my climate is probably too hot and dry for them.

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Yes, One consolation of a wet cool climate!
Many Himalayan plants, that grow at high altitudes in their native lands, like Scotland very well and even become pests (pink Rhododendron ponticum springs to mind). Some areas of the Pacific North West may manage them though since the climate there is pretty similar. According to the RHS they don't need acid soil, but seem to like mine fine.

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Nancy, they're all beautiful! Thank you for sharing the pics!

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