Tequila Sunrise California Poppy Flower Seeds

Poppy (California) - Tequila Sunrise Eschscholtzia californica Perennial/ Grown as Annual - Everyone loves easy to grow, long-blooming California poppies with their vivid blossoms and carefree natural ambiance. This mix consists of a wonderful duet of the prettiest new poppy colors: a gorgeous mandarin-red splashed with gold and a warm soft cream. This duo of radiant silky blossoms with feathery gray-green foliage is beautiful in flowerbeds or perfect to cover bare or neglected garden areas. A little bouquet of these satiny valentine-colored flowers is pure serendipity!

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Eschscholtzia californica
• Plant type: Perennial
• Growth habit: Low Growing
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Soil & Water: Sow seeds directly into a finely textured, well-drained garden bed in full sun as early in spring as the ground can be worked.
• Recorded feature: Open-Pollinated
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/4"
• Germination: 7-14 Days
• Height At Maturity: 12-15"
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 4-6"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Tequila Sunrise California Poppy Flower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Place Tequila Sunrise California Poppy Flower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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