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buy poppy seeds for garden Shirley Poppy Flower Seeds Support the PollinatorsAdd delicate, romantic beauty to your garden with Shirley Poppies! These ethereal blooms feature tissue paper thin petals in stunning shades of pink, white, peach, salmon, and rose, many with beautiful contrasting picotee edges and ruffled, crinkled textures. Beloved by bees and butterflies, Shirley Poppies are easy to grow, low maintenance flowers that bring cottage garden charm and abundant pollinator activity to any sunny spot. Perfect for

Add delicate, romantic beauty to your garden with Shirley Poppies! These ethereal blooms feature tissue-paper-thin petals in stunning shades of pink, white, peach, salmon, and rose, many with beautiful contrasting picotee edges and ruffled, crinkled textures. Beloved by bees and butterflies, Shirley Poppies are easy-to-grow, low-maintenance flowers that bring cottage garden charm and abundant pollinator activity to any sunny spot. Perfect for wildflower meadows, cutting gardens, or adding soft, romantic color to borders and beds.

What Makes Shirley Poppies Special:

Exquisite Romantic Blooms:

  • Delicate, silky petals with a tissue-paper texture
  • Single-petaled flowers (4 petals per bloom)
  • Colors range from soft white and blush pink to vibrant coral, salmon, and deep rose
  • Many blooms feature picotee edges (darker or lighter petal edges)
  • Beautiful ruffled and crinkled petal edges add texture
  • Dark centers contrast beautifully with pale petals
  • Flowers measure 2-4 inches across

Pollinator Magnet:

  • Single-petal structure provides easy access to nectar and pollen
  • Bees absolutely love Shirley Poppies
  • Attracts butterflies and beneficial insects
  • Provides early-season food for emerging pollinators
  • Dark seed heads provide food for songbirds after blooming

Cottage Garden Classic:

  • Timeless heirloom variety dating back to the 1880s
  • Named after Reverend William Wilks of Shirley, England
  • Quintessential English cottage garden flower
  • Brings old-fashioned, romantic charm to modern gardens
  • Perfect for whimsical, naturalistic plantings

Easy to Grow & Self-Sowing:

  • One of the easiest flowers to grow from seed
  • Germinates quickly (usually within 10-15 days)
  • Thrives on neglect once established
  • Self-seeds readily for blooms year after year
  • Minimal maintenance required

Perfect For: Cottage gardens, wildflower meadows, pollinator gardens, cutting gardens, romantic garden designs, naturalized areas, spring borders, memorial gardens, English gardens, photography, wedding flowers, Mother's Day gifts, housewarming gifts, garden enthusiasts.

Growing Your Shirley Poppies:

Planting Instructions:

  • IMPORTANT: Poppies prefer direct sowing (don't transplant well)
  • Sow seeds directly outdoors in early spring or fall
  • Press seeds lightly into soil surface (needs light to germinate)
  • Do not cover seeds with soil
  • Keep moist until germination (10-15 days)
  • Thin seedlings to 6-8 inches apart

Best Growing Conditions:

  • Full sun (6+ hours daily)
  • Well-drained soil, tolerates poor to average fertility
  • Prefers cooler temperatures for germination
  • Does not like extreme heat
  • Once established, very drought-tolerant
  • USDA hardiness zones 3-9, may thrive in zones 1-11

Height & Spread:

  • Plants grow 18-24 inches tall
  • Slender, hairy stems with feathery, blue-green foliage
  • Space 6-8 inches apart for best results
  • Airy growth habit allows companion planting

Bloom Time & Duration:

  • Blooms in late spring to early summer
  • Each flower lasts only 1-2 days (but plants produce many blooms)
  • Blooming period extends 3-6 weeks with successive sowings
  • Self-sows for continuous blooms in following years
  • Plant every 2-3 weeks for extended bloom season

Care & Maintenance:

Minimal Care Needed:

  • Water regularly until established
  • Drought-tolerant once mature
  • No fertilizing needed (encourages foliage over flowers)
  • No deadheading required unless preventing self-seeding
  • Allow seed heads to form for next year's blooms
  • Leave seed heads for birds in fall/winter

Self-Seeding Success:

  • Poppies readily self-seed if allowed
  • Let some flowers go to seed at end of season
  • Seeds will scatter naturally and germinate next spring
  • Creates naturalized drifts over time
  • No need to replant each year

Cutting Garden Favorite:

  • Makes stunning, romantic cut flowers
  • Harvest in bud stage just as petals begin to open
  • Sear stem ends with flame for longer vase life
  • Use in loose, airy arrangements
  • Petals have an ethereal, watercolor quality
  • Typically last 2-3 days in a vase

Companion Planting:

  • Pairs beautifully with:
    • Foxgloves
    • Delphiniums
    • Lupines
    • Sweet Peas
    • Bachelor's Buttons (Cornflowers)
    • Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist)
    • Ornamental grasses
    • Cosmos

Historical & Cultural Significance:

  • Developed by Reverend William Wilks in the 1880s
  • Named after his vicarage in Shirley, England
  • Selected from wild corn poppies (Papaver rhoeas)
  • Became beloved in English cottage gardens
  • Symbol of remembrance (related to Flanders poppies)

Photography & Special Events:

  • Highly photogenic with ethereal, painterly quality
  • Perfect for wedding bouquets and corsages
  • Romantic garden photography subject
  • Creates dreamy, soft-focus garden scenes
  • Backlit petals glow beautifully in morning/evening light

What to Expect First Year:

  • Quick germination (10-15 days)
  • Fast growth to flowering (8-10 weeks from seed)
  • Abundant blooms in late spring/early summer
  • Self-seeds for next year if allowed
  • Low-maintenance, carefree performance

Common Questions:

Q: Why won't my poppies transplant well? A: Poppies have a long taproot that doesn't like disturbance. Always direct sow where you want them to grow.

Q: Can I prevent self-seeding? A: Yes, deadhead spent blooms before seed pods form. But allowing self-seeding means free flowers next year!

Q: Do Shirley Poppies contain opium? A: No. Shirley Poppies (Papaver rhoeas) are ornamental corn poppies, completely different from opium poppies (Papaver somniferum).

Storage Instructions: Store seeds in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and high humidity. Ideal storage temperature is between 32-41°F. Properly stored seeds remain viable for 2-3 years.

Gift-Ready Packaging: Beautiful seed packet makes a perfect gift for cottage garden enthusiasts, romantic gardeners, bee lovers, Mother's Day, memorial gardens, housewarming gifts, wedding favors, or anyone who appreciates delicate, old-fashioned blooms.

Create a Complete Cottage Garden: Pair with our Flower Seed Collection (6-pack) for more cottage garden favorites, try our Pollinator Wildflower Seed Blend for a naturalized meadow, or browse our complete Garden Seeds Collection for additional varieties.



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L. Moyse
Phoenix, US
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A fine performance
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You see an old pocket knife on the cover, maybe a Case; it may have even belonged to Jesse Graves, but he has certainly used it in sculpting his poetry. "Tennessee Landscape" is pure plain speech, and all the more evocative for it. Graves uses language not to shock, not incite and not to transgress; he uses it to bring home simple and time worn truths that never go away. In the poem that is the book's title, Graves recounts his family history and ends telling us "The dead move through us at their will, their voices chime/just beyond our hearing...alone in the field, and never alone." He pays homage to a farming tool"(Elegy for a Hay Rake), not with a tone of jaundiced cynicism, speaking to it instead in a voice filled with thanks and appreciation, as if the hay rake, too,knew how worthwhile its job had been. The second part of the volume expands Graves' geography from East Tennessee to New Orleans, North Carolina, points beyond, and the cast of subjects becomes a little broader as well, but the language remains firm and precise. "The Night Cafe: North Rendon, New Orleans": diction so perfect I feel I was there that night too. "My Sister at Sea": likely my favorite here. It feels personal, a short glimpse into a private heart; the glimpse is snatched away in a hurry but not before Graves tells us "...wishing I could bring/ you to this shore...Make your illness a small boat we could burn/Sailing out in ashes on the current." Whether it is a landscape, a hay rake, a bar or a loved one, Jesse Graves is a poet of things that last, one who writes quiet confessions with confidence in a spare quiet and sure voice. Very highly recommend this book.
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Thomas A. Holmes
Draper, US
★★★★★ 5
Fine Contemporary Poetry--Just Happens to Be Appalachian
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The poems in Jesse Graves' TENNESSEE LANDSCAPE WITH BLIGHTED PINE express an indebtedness to a way of life that we contemporary Appalachians have watched transform at an accelerated pace over the past few decades, as we see the beloved old ways of our culture adapt to the demands of a society marked with the pervasiveness of media, the incursion of corporate demands, and the poignant recognition that as much as family prepares us to face the world outside our community, the impact of that world can blur the impressions our homes have made on us. Graves' work approaches these themes from various directions, as a son looking to the legacy of his family, as a youth and young man balancing education--both formal and that gleaned from personal experience--and as a family man weighing what he shares and offers in embodying those values. In this consistently fine volume, it is difficult to select favorites, but there are "River Gods," where an inebriated student and his companion cross the high railway trestle over the Tennessee River in Knoxville, Tennessee, "Deep Corner," where the speaker contemplates how his life has turned out differently than his brother's, "Mother's Milk," where the speaker weighs how much his mother has contributed to his life (including, sweetly, "an ear for slightly off-pitch singing"), and "Digging the Pond," where the speaker and his father silently acknowledge that the son will not preserve all his father's values: . . . I stood off to the side too often to learn what he was born knowing. The doing and the undoing. I can find in his face what he reads about the future in the tea-colored water, his eyes and mine trying to avoid it. Graves' love for these gifts, those accepted and those only acknowledged, resonates throughout TENNESSEE LANDSCAPE WITH BLIGHTED PINE. Graves' appreciation for lyric poetry, his talent for finding the expressiveness of everyday language, and his offering scenes with great depth of meaning and feeling make this collection memorable, worthy of high recommendation.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2011
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Whiting, US
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Extraordinary Journey
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Jesse Graves conducts the reader on an intimate journey from childhood to manhood. Rooted deep in the rich red clay of East Tennessee, the narrative provides fresh insights about the ties of land and family. "Johnson's Ground" describes an annual homecoming at the family cemetery: "they never let us go, even the ones/Laid under before our births continue to make their claims." The poems express both nostalgia for the past as well as forward-looking hopes for a fresh life in the future. Daughter, Chloe often becomes a bridge from present to past as in "Water Washing Away": "A fair price for the vision of a girl/ who has warped the ancient spell of time,/ who has turned back my eyes." Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine is an enchanting read for poet and non-poet alike.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2013
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Austin Duck
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Go Read Art Smith or Charles Wright
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This book is clearly the case of someone steeped in a lyric tradition, but, rather than engaging in the self-reflexive structure of the tradition, is interested in describing ad nauseum, his southern experience. While there are moments in the book that tend toward the sublime, it rests largely as self-indulgent in a way antithetical to the form it chooses.
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Angels Among Us
Waukegan, US
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Dr. G.
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Jesse Graves (a.k.a. "Dr. G.") is one of my professors at East Tennessee State University. Not only is he a great teacher, he is a very talented poet. I would recommend his work to anyone! Anyone that does not like his work probably just failed his class. :p
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