Papaver orientale Karine - Oriental Poppy

Oriental poppy 'Karine' is, for us, the most beautiful of poppies with its soft pale-pink colour and its simple flowers. It embodies all the charm of an English garden.

An excellent transitional plant for flower beds, 'Karine' blooms during a quiet period in the garden (after spring blooms and before summer ones). It pairs very well with delicate flowers like sea kale or baby's breath, or with perennial plants bearing spikes like toadflax.

Oriental poppies are excellent perennial plants for flower beds. A very robust plant hides behind their large crumpled petals, capable of thriving in poor, rocky, and dry soils in summer. After abundant flowering in late spring, the poppy dries up. The stalks can then be used to create dried bouquets.

It completely disappears to enter dormancy in the heart of summer and reemerges in autumn to bloom a second time as soon as the temperatures become milder.

Its only fear is winter humidity. In heavy soils, replace the clay soil with pure sand in the planting hole.