Allegro Oriental Poppy

This selection produces some of the most intensely coloured flowers of any perennial: its large scarlet-orange bowl-shaped blooms with near-black central markings are almost hallucinatory in their vivid contrast, and the decorative acorn-like seed pods that follow are equally ornamental.

• Large bowl-shaped flowers with scarlet-orange petals and near-black central markings and stamens, extraordinarily vivid
• Freely self-seeds from decorative acorn-like seed pods that are used fresh or dried in arrangements
• Thistle-like hairy mid-green foliage is distinctive in texture and provides good contrast to other border plants
• Plants go fully dormant in summer, plant among later-blooming perennials to fill the gap