Papaver orientale Storm Torch

(='Sturmfackel') Oriental Poppies provide a cheerful display of huge, satiny flowers in late spring and early summer. Plants form a low clump of coarse, hairy leaves, and usually go dormant, disappearing completely by late summer. This compact selection features fiery scarlet-red flowers. Because they disappear in summer, place something beside Oriental Poppies that will get bushy later in the season, such as Rudbeckia, Russian Sage, or fall-flowering grasses. Divide in August — September. Flowers are good for cutting, picked just as the buds begin to open.