Papaver orientale Türkenlouis - Oriental Poppy

The Oriental poppy 'Türkenlouis' is an original variety with large double and serrated red flowers.

In late spring, crumpled flowers bloom.

An excellent transitional plant for flower beds, the Oriental poppy 'Türkenlouis' blooms during a dormant period (after spring blooms and before summer blooms). It pairs well with small, airy flowers like sea kale or baby's breath.

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

It completely disappears to enter dormancy in the middle of summer and reemerges in autumn to bloom again as soon as the temperatures become milder. 

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