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Papaver orientale Queen Alexandra - Oriental Poppy

Papaver orientale Queen Alexandra
Oriental Poppy

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The Oriental Poppy 'Queen Alexandra', All the charm of an English garden.
Flower size
12 cm
Height at maturity
60 cm
Spread at maturity
30 cm
Exposure
Sun
Hardiness
Hardy down to -29°C
Soil moisture
Dry soil, Moist soil
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Recommended planting time February to April, September to November
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Flowering time May to July
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Description

The Oriental poppy 'Queen Alexandra' is for us the most beautiful poppy with its soft salmon pink color and its very simple flowers. It's all the charm of the English garden.

Excellent transitional plant for flower beds, the Oriental poppy 'Queen Alexandra' blooms during a lull period (after spring blooms and before summer blooms). It pairs very well with small, airy flowers like sea kale or baby's breath, or with perennial plants in spikes like linaria.

Oriental poppies are excellent perennial plants for flower beds. Behind their large flowers with crumpled petals, lies a very robust plant capable of living in poor, rocky, and dry soils in the summer. After a abundant flowering in late spring, the poppy dries up, first the flower stalks, which can be used in dried bouquets, then the leaves.

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. 

It only fears one thing, winter moisture; in heavy soils, the solution consists of replacing the clayey soil with pure sand in the planting hole.

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Papaver orientale Queen Alexandra - Oriental Poppy (Foliage) Foliage

Flowering

Flower colour pink
Flowering time May to July
Flower size 12 cm
Flowering description Single, salmon pink.

Foliage

Foliage persistence Deciduous
Foliage colour medium green
Foliage description Deciduous.

Plant habit

Height at maturity 60 cm
Spread at maturity 30 cm
Growth rate normal

Botanical data

Genus

Papaver

Species

orientale

Cultivar

Queen Alexandra

Family

Papaveraceae

Other common names

Oriental Poppy

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

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Planting and care

Perennial poppies appreciate full sun and thrive in well-drained garden soil. In heavy and clayey soils, you will plant your Queen Alexandra poppy in a hole filled with pure sand, with a volume equivalent to three times that of the bucket. Trim faded flower stalks and clean up old foliage during the summer. But be careful! Wear gloves as the white latex secreted by the plant is toxic and can cause serious burns if it comes into contact with the eyes!

Planting period

Recommended planting time February to April, September to November

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow, Rockery
Type of use Border
Hardiness Hardy down to -29°C (USDA zone 5) Show map
Planting density 5 per m2
Exposure Sun
Soil pH Neutral, Calcareous
Soil type Chalky (poor, alkaline and well-drained), Silty-loamy (rich and light), Stony (poor and well-drained)
Soil moisture Dry soil, Moist soil, Free-draining.

Care

Pruning instructions Cut the stems and dried foliage during the summer dormancy period to induce a second flowering in late summer.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time July to August
Overwinter Can be left in the ground
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