Poppy Flower Seeds
POPPYA£2.39
Product information
Poppy Brilliant
Create a striking focal point in your garden with the classic Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientale)! Featuring large, scarlet-red flowers with a dramatic jet-black centre, these bold blooms add intense colour and texture to borders. Growing up to 80cm (32"), this hardy perennial returns year after year, providing a spectacular summer display. Perfect for wildlife-friendly gardens, it attracts pollinators while being drought-tolerant once established. A must-have for vibrant, low-maintenance borders.
Handy Tip: The large vibrant blooms are perfect planted in a border of hot colours.
⚠ Caution: Harmful if eaten.
Poppy Ladybird
Bring a bold splash of colour to your garden with Ladybird Poppy (Papaver commutatum)! These stunning fire-red blooms with distinctive black blotches closely resemble a ladybird, creating a striking visual effect. Growing to 40cm (16"), these hardy annuals are perfect for direct sowing in borders, where they form beautiful drifts of colour. Easy to grow and low maintenance, these poppies thrive in full sun and attract bees and butterflies, making them a great choice for pollinator-friendly gardens.
Handy Tip: Sow in drifts so that flowers sway in the gentle summer breeze.
***Please check the individual packets for sowing your seeds and harvesting as they may vary from the chart below***
Key Benefits
- Striking Blooms – ‘Brilliant’ features large, fiery red flowers, while ‘Ladybird’ showcases bold red petals with black blotches, resembling a ladybird.
- Easy to Grow – Both varieties are low-maintenance and thrive in full sun with well-drained soil.
- Attracts Pollinators – Supports bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects, enhancing biodiversity.
- Perfect for Borders – Adds intense colour and texture to garden beds, wildflower meadows, and cottage gardens.
- ⚠ Caution: Harmful if eaten – Handle with care around pets and children.
Technical specifications
| Approx. Seed count | Poppy Brilliant - 100 seeds |
| Poppy Ladybird - 500 seeds | |
| When to Sow | February to June or September and October |
| Where to Sow | Poppy Brilliant - Under cover sow seeds onto the surface of a good free draining seed compost. Do not cover the seed as light helps germination. Place at a temperature of 15°C (60°F) until after germination which usually takes 10-21 days. |
| Poppy Ladybird - Direct into weed free flowering site 1cm (1/2") deep. | |
| What to do Next | Poppy Brilliant - Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle into pots and grow on until larger. Gradually acclimatise plants to cooler conditions for a few weeks before planting out in a cold frame 30cm (12") apart. Later sowings should be overwintered in a cold frame for planting out the following spring. |
| Poppy Ladybird - Poppies do not like being transplanted so thin seedlings out. | |
| Flowers | Poppy Brilliant - May to July the following year. |
| Poppy Ladybird - June to September |