1500 MIKADO POPPY Red Orange California Poppy Flower Eschscholzia Californica Seeds

DESCRIPTION: NAME: Mikado Poppy SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eschscholzia Californica COLOR: Orangy Scarlet Red PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost BLOOM TIME: Spring - Summer HARDINESS ZONE: 6 - 10 (& itself easily, so it acts like a perennial in all zones) PLANT HEIGHT: 12 - 18" PLANT SPACING: 6 - 9" LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average - Dry QUANTITY: 1500 Seeds OTHER: Mikado is a California Poppy whose 2 tone flowers give it a very lovely shimmery effect. The petals are a deep orange on the inside with scarlet red on the underside that shows through. The flowers only open when the sun is shining & get their beauty rest in the dark of night or on cloudy days, so you’ll get to see both sides. Poppies attract bees, butterflies, and birds, but are deer resistant. The huge showy 2 - 4" blooms make for an excellent cut flower, and their unique looking seed pods are splendid in dried arrangements or for crafts. California Poppies are ab