500 ORIENTAL RED MIX POPPY Papaver Orientale Flower Seeds BLOOM TIME: Summer HARDINESS ZONE: 3 - 8 PLANT HEIGHT: 36" . . . PLANT SPACING: 15 - 20" LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade . . . SOIL / WATER: Average - Dry This heirloom variety poppy attract bees, butterflies, and birds. The huge showy 2 - 4 inches blooms make them an excellent cut flower, and their unique looking seed pods are splendid in dried arrangements or for crafts. They are known in folk medicine as a mild sedative and analgesic.