Giant Double Red Peony Poppy Papaver Scarlet Flower
Peony Poppies have huge double 4-5” blooms! Poppies attract bees, butterflies, and birds.
The huge showy blooms make them excellent cut flowers, and their unique-looking seed pods are splendid in dried arrangements or for crafts.
They are known in folk medicine as a mild sedative and analgesic.
Name: Giant Double Red Peony Poppy
Scientific Name: Papaver Somniferum Var. Paeoniflorin
Color: Fringed Double Scarlet 4 - 5" Flowers
Plant Seeds: Outdoors After Frost / Indoors Weeks Before Last Frost
Bloom Time: Mid Summer
Hardiness Zone: N/a (but Reseeds Itself Easily, So It Acts Like a Perennial in All Zones)
Plant height: 24 - 36"
Plant Spacing: 9 - 15"
Light Requirements: Sun
Soil and Water Preferences: Average
