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Hi there,

We've got those Welsh poppies (Meconopsis cambrica) sprouting out all over the garden, some have got heads full of lovely black seeds already, apart from making teeny weeny maracas - what can be done with them? Can they be eaten ??

I've read that it's just the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) seeds which are edible.

As far as I can gather you're right, it IS only the opium poppy seeds that can be eaten. That's why I'm growing them, Shirleys papaver mixed!

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At least, that why he SAYS he's growng opium poppies. Honest, officer!

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Funny you should say that Flum, in some states of America it's illegal (a sick bird?) to grow them!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Yeah well, prohibition has never worked, It would be fine as long as they kept there joyless laws there but they feel they must police the world. I thought that was why we stuck em on the Mayflower? ...imagine a bloomer without poppy seeds...Huh!

Grow them? they do that themselves! The thought police would have some sickle work at the bottom of my garden...looks a bit like Afghanistan!

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