Sowing poppies in September

OZZ

Hi.  I would like to try to grow poppies in my garden and after reading about it I sprinkled some poppy seeds around beginning of September but I see seeds are coming up! Wouldn't they get killed by frost? I guess I imagined they would overwinter and start coming up in the spring?

JennyJ

Annual poppies are hardy so they should be fine, and will flower earlier than spring-sown ones. Wild poppies drop their seed in late summer and do fine, so yours will too. Any that haven't germinated will come up later. Maybe much later - they can go dormant if buried and germinate years later if the soil is disturbed.

Fairygirl

It's what plants do in their natural habitat. Some won't make it, some will. That's how it works 

Valley Gardener

I did the same as you @OZZ so must go out and see if anything has appeared!