{"id":10259,"date":"2014-05-21T03:36:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:01:24","slug":"icelandic-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/icelandic-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"159 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4629302416\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4036\/4629302416_e4414d3de7.jpg\" alt=\"159\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic Poppies are native of North America rather than Iceland. I am not aware of any exclusively native Iceland plants.<\/p>\n<p>I find this poppy variety self sows very easily and the seed remains viable in the garden for several seasons.<br \/>\nThe plants have a long tap root which may make them harder to transplant.<br \/>\nIf the root gets broken when trying to dig out the plant a new one will probably grow in its place. Due to this and its profligate seeding I treat them like weeds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"poppy by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4628700211\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4628700211_a1ea08b424.jpg\" alt=\"poppy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=icelandic+poppy&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=s7v&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;prmd=ivns&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">Other Icelandic Poppy Images from Google<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The red poppies below are not Icelancid poppies which tend to have finer smooth leaves. They also grow 10-14&#8243; rather than these 24&#8243; flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"poppies by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5187612674\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4145\/5187612674_bed814bd7e.jpg\" alt=\"poppies\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For an interesting pink poppy see <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-garden-poppies\/\">growing garden poppies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seedheads can be dried to make flower arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"poppy seedheads by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5207023577\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5286\/5207023577_75b5598c87.jpg\" alt=\"poppy seedheads\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nat.is\/travelguideeng\/flora_iceland.htm\">natural Icelandic flora<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poppies from Iceland not the retail store but the papery petaled flowers called Icelandic poppies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}