Dicranostigma franchetianum
Eastern horned poppy
- Height × spread
- 1m × 1m
- Position
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade, tolerates light shade
- Hardiness
- Frost free greenhouse 1C & above (RHS H2)
- Flowers
- Summer
Availability
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About this plant
An annual that is quite tall and picturesque with glaucous blue foliage. The lower leaves are jagged, and the upper ones perfoliate (which means they wrap around the plant stems). The poppy flowers are bright yellow with four informal petals. The individual flowers are short-lived, but more are regularly produced between June and August. It grows naturally in rocky and sandy places in China, sometimes at as much as 4,000 metres altitude.
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Foliage colour
- Blue
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Column
- Height
- 1m
- Spread
- 1m
- Season of interest
- Summer
- Flowers in
- Summer
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Rock garden, Prairie garden
- Sun or shade
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade, tolerates light shade
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Frost free greenhouse 1C & above (RHS H2)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Ground cover, Bee attraction
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water in dry periods
Established plants in the ground can cope with 7-10 days of dryness, and shrubs often manage 2 to 3 weeks. Water one section of the garden thoroughly each day rather than a little everywhere. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather.
Summer
Summer - early · Outdoors
Feed a general fertiliser
Where plants have moderate needs for nutrients, they can simply be given a general feed, fairly early in the growth season so that the growth has plenty of time to harden off before the cold weather.
Give plants a general boost with the application of a general purpose fertiliser which is spread around the root area of the plant, with amounts as directed on the feed label.