Poppies are a fantastic flower which can be added to gardens to create stunning and colorful scenes.
If you are trying to create an element of garden design in your oasis then careful planting of each individual poppy is a good idea.
There are a couple of great planting methods to follow if you're stuck for ideas, and these will result in stunning scenes in your garden.
Swathe Planting Planting can often look amazing when it is done in mass.
You can create a wall of color with poppies by planting individual plants close together in a large block.
Pull this mass of plants through borders amongst other plants so that the color creates a river of poppy color amongst the other vegetation.
Large patches of color can make more of an instant impression than a few small specimens hidden amongst other plants.
And by using swathe planting you will make a great instant first impression upon visitors.
Group Planting Another great way to plant is by group planting, setting small numbers such as three or five plants in a number of places amongst a border.
Whilst planting a swathe will cause instant dramatization, group planting is more subtle.
Visitors to your garden will see one group at a time, with the next set of flowering poppies pulling their eye through a border.
This is a great way to draw attention around a garden and away from places you perhaps you don't want people to scrutinize too much, and is perfect if you want to use fewer plants.
Each planting method has great benefits in garden design, either creating an instant screen of color, or allowing subtle hints to shine through a planting scheme.
Whichever method you use it doesn't matter as, with Papaver somniferum poppies being annual, you can easily try the other design process the following year.