Karen, you're only allowed to feel half bad, because my seedlings are fine ; ) We've been having a lot of wind and below freezing temps at night and they apparently are small yet mighty little poppies. I even noticed a bit of growth on some of them. Which is amazing in this much below average weather we've been having. I have another milk jug of them germinating, so either way, I'll be a-ok : ) They're Lauren's Grape, which I've seen plastered on the internet the last few yrs, so I'm excited to see if they're everything everyone seems to think they are. Aside from just figuring out how to get annual poppies growing in the garden.
My perennial poppy died last summer after blooming in spring. Luckily I had collected seeds from the prior season(ie. 2 seasons ago). I had tried to scatter them, and nothing grew last year. I came across a few leftover seeds this spring and decided what the heck, and attempted to winter sow them in one of my milk jugs. And one seedling is just plugging along. I'm so excited about this. I'm slightly off topic here, but anyway, it's 'Beauty of Livermere' and one of the 2 first poppy plants I grew from plant, but tickled to actually have been able to start it from seed. Old seed at that. Although I'm still cautiously optimistic at this early stage.
