Poppy 'Danish Flag'

Papaver somniferum

In gardens of Elizabethan times, opium poppies were found in many different colors and forms, many of great beauty, such as this single variety with scarlet petals fringed at the tips with a cross of pure white. The overlong name given at that time, "John Silver-pin, fair without and foul within," refers to its unpleasant aroma when smelled up close. Variety 'Danebrog' was described in an 1886 catalog as “brilliant scarlet, each of the four petals being stamped with an ivory white spot, forming a white cross…resembling the Danish and Swiss national banners." Self sows. Cannot ship to WV and Canada.