Oriental Poppy Seeds – Royal Wedding Papaver Orientale Poppies

The beautiful variety of Royal Wedding falls into the Papaver Orientale family and offers gardeners a huge fantastic display of color. Also known as the Black and White Poppy, Royal Wedding has petals that provide an intense flash of white with deep black spots at their center. A lovely bloom which looks perfect as a highlight or background color, it is a poppy variety that no garden should be without.

Producing an abundance of beautiful five inch flowers atop of architectural stems climbing to four foot in the air, Royal Wedding is a great variety for a range of gardens. Used as a backdrop color, its bright white blooms will contrast magnificently against flowers of deeper hues. Meanwhile, it dramatic flair allows it to also be used as a highlight color itself, and planted against a darker backdrop its flowers will light up any garden.

Perennial in characteristic, Royal Wedding poppies need little maintenance to keep them coming back year after year. Hardy in zones 3-9, this packet of 25 poppy seeds are best sown in the fall or early spring, directly into the ground where plants are wanted. Meanwhile, as long as soils are kept well drained, this wonderful Papaver Orientale specimen will thrive in most garden settings, bringing new blooms season after season.

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