Gardening can be a funny hobby when you looking at its fundamentals. Many gardeners will spend hours weeding out natural flowers and weeds only to replace them with domesticated and hybridized varieties of the very plants that have been removed. If you are attempting to mimic Mother Nature in your garden weeding can become even more bizarre, as you’re actually removing the steps made by nature to create the most natural planting scheme possible.

Of course, gardening is all about the removal of weeds and the incorporation of plants that we love into beautifully laid out garden schemes. However, perhaps its best to leave little established seedlings and give them a chance sometimes?

Using Papaver somniferum poppies in this way can be fantastic, and you’ll soon discover just how hardy these beautiful specimens can be. Growing seeds where you’ve carefully planted and nourished them is a very rewarding experience, but there can also be a rewarding surprise in finding a little self sown plant forging its own way in the world. You don’t quite know how it got there, how it will grow, what color it will be, and there is something extraordinarily special in that.

So, next time you’re gardening and find a few Papaver somniferum seeds which have germinated themselves in interesting places, don’t weed them out, let them grow. Especially in a non-formal garden this can be a great way of discovering surprises in even the most well managed to gardens.  And whether you just leave a couple of plants or dozens, they’ll quickly thank you for your kindness.

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Papaver somniferum poppies come in a huge array of varieties and can offer you an enormous number of options for you garden. Flowers differ in size, hue, and petal texture, allowing you to create a stunning collection of these wonderful poppies. Papaver somniferum, also known as Breadseed poppies, can also be used alongside other garden plants to great appeal because there is always a variety which will fit with your garden palette.

If you’re looking for a beautiful pink and soft bloom, then you need look no further than the lovely variety of Pink Dawn. One of the best pink varieties in the Breadseed poppy family, Pink Dawn has all the iconic traits of the poppy, whilst offering an elegance which surpasses many other forms. Large flowers of rose pink can add a touch of elegance to any garden, and with dark burgundy spots at each petals base this variety’s fantastic color is set off to even more appeal.

Pink Dawn is ideal if you have a garden with a pale pastel palette or are looking to create a stunning female inspired scene utilizing pinks and whites. Whilst other garden plants will come and go through the season you will always be able to use Pink Dawn to fill spots and areas which may not have flowers at certain times of year. And with this stunning variety producing a multitude of seeds at the end of the season you’ll always be able to include new Pink Dawn flowers in your garden beds and borders.

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When you think of drought tolerant gardens the first plants that may spring to mind are succulents and cacti, along with other plant species more accustomed to growing in a desert. Whilst there are many great gardens created along these planting concepts, making a drought tolerant garden doesn’t necessarily involve only using these plant types. And one group of plants that you could consider if you want to create a garden which requires less water is that of the Papaver somniferum.

Many plants which are suitable for drought tolerant planting are those with grey leaves. Papaver somniferum species have grey green leaves which not only help reflect the light (ideal if you want to brighten up darker spaces) but also help them cope with drier conditions than many other plants can survive in. They therefore can be safely used if you want to bring color and flower to dry patches of gardens or entire outside retreats which are more suitable for drier climates.

Not only saving you both time and money on sprinkler systems or hand watering, using Papaver somniferum species will ensure that your garden remains a rich and thriving oasis throughout the year. Many traditional desert plants are slow to grow and rare to flower, making gardens often quite flowerless. In addition, succulents in particular can be ground hugging plants, not offering much structural appeal to horticultural spaces. But by ensuring that you use a fantastic range of poppies you can bring color and vibrancy to even the most drought tolerant of gardens.

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