What are these?

dannie

I've collected some of these seeds so far. They are very dark brown/black unlike my previously foodstore purchased biege ones. Can anybody confirm that my garden poppy seeds are also used in baking? Thanks.

stumpycat

I've got both of them growing as weeds in my garden! The woodruff isn't so much of a problem as it just wanders around under the hedge, but the poppies appear everywhere and have roots like parsnips!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I love the poppies we call them welsh poppies/alpine poppies round here too.
Planted together with the orange ones they look lovely and provide almost everlasting colour and interest for the bees who love them.
My poppies are starting to throw out rogue mixtures of yellow with orange blotches,peachy coloured ones and orange with yellow swirls very pretty.
Just pull out as you would to thin seedlings the ones you don't want to mature.

Jake'sGran

On the subject of poppy seeds I was convinced that my big red poppy was Papaver Somniferum, the opium poppy but my son insists they aren't. He seems to know a lot about herbs and useful plants in general. At one time you could buy poppy seeds to put on the tops of buns but I think I read somewhere that people were trying to grow the poppies which is illegal of course, and these seeds have been withdrawn from supermarket shelves. Don't know if this is true?

olly300

Jake'sGran wrote: »

On the subject of poppy seeds I was convinced that my big red poppy was Papaver Somniferum, the opium poppy but my son insists they aren't. He seems to know a lot about herbs and useful plants in general. At one time you could buy poppy seeds to put on the tops of buns but I think I read somewhere that people were trying to grow the poppies which is illegal of course, and these seeds have been withdrawn from supermarket shelves. Don't know if this is true?

You can grow poppies where you can eat the seed but they are different from the ones that get you high. (Someone gave one to Alys on the Gardener's World program.)

I know someone who worked as a gardener who was puzzled for years why people kept slitting the seed heads of the poppies in the public park she worked then she worked it out. And it's still legal to grow them for ornamental purposes in the UK.

RAS

Dannie

These are Welsh poppies.

The seeds for baking come from the larger poppy which looks very much like the opium poppy except for the flower colours - http://www.onestoppoppyshoppe.com/servlet/the-Annual-Poppy-Seeds-cln-Papaver-somniferum/Categories

I have several and you will find them anywhere where people of Polish origin have been growing food (like my old plot neighbour). the colour of the seed tends to be mixed, depending on how soon you pick the pods. There is a white seeded variety.

dannie

RAS

Thanks, I''ve just been checking your above stated poppy website - a very nice selection of poppies, especially the Himalyan Blue. So, it seems that my garden Welsh Poppy isn't a breadseed poppy afterall!

Lotus-eater

I've got quite a few different poppies growing in my garden, I've often wondered if any of them are the opium poppy, I do know that it still grows wild in some places.
What colour are they then, or what distinguishing features do they have?
I have no intention of making anything from them btw

olly300

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've got quite a few different poppies growing in my garden, I've often wondered if any of them are the opium poppy, I do know that it still grows wild in some places.
What colour are they then, or what distinguishing features do they have?
I have no intention of making anything from them btw

You find several seed heads mysteriously slit.

Lotus-eater

olly300 wrote: »

You find several seed heads mysteriously slit.

Not in my back garden I won't, not unless the oh has something going on I don't know