I sprinkled hundreds and hundreds of different poppy seeds in the garden, only ones to grow are in the pot with the olive tree, where I didn't sprinkle any!
At time of typing all the petals have fallen off, so didn't have courtesy to last a day!
Pocketful of joy today - tea in a friend's garden catching up and being taught different crochet techniques ( This has just been surprisingly surpassed by another friend sending me photos of two bees on her genitalia!!!! After she'd spotted the autocorrect she quickly assured me she meant genista plants!)
I used to have simple, single, orange poppies that self seeded for years. Then a few years ago I bought 3 plants of bigger and fancier poppies . One died after the first year, the second one is still around but looking less than enthusiastic about life and the third one is still going strong and spreading. None of them self seed though . . .probably some hybrids that are sterile.
My advice is to not sprinkle any next year and you will have an abundance of them! This one is pretty enough for all its temporariness