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Is that the hallucinogenic flower Bruce Wayne had to get before he could join Ra’s Al Ghul’s killer ninjas? Usually they’re a bit more blue.
Kathy. I think culinary poppy seeds come from P. somniferum so anyone with a modestly stocked spice rack could grow these (Chris, correct me if I’m wrong).
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Kathy McCarty:
You fell victim to an urban legend, I am afraid. Perhaps the DEA wants you to be a victim.
Many stores and online businesses sell poppies, including Richter’s, the big Canadian mail order nursery.
I got mine from Annie.
It’s illegal to grow these in Canada too—since sometime in the 1990s, when legislation passed intended to liberalize the marijuana laws was balanced by a crackdown on those damn gardeners. Nevertheless, you can buy seeds here, as a commenter above notes, but, at least in Ontario, you can’t really grow these to good opium-producing size, at least not outdoors…
Once you have them in the garden, in my experience, they are such prolific self-seeders that they’ll come back year after year.