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Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sewer Lomb series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.

Thank you. The podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed. Hi, I'm Oliver Parsons, Horticultural sub-editor on BBC Gardners World magazine. Hi, I'm Oliver Parsons, a horticultural sub-editor on BBC Gardners World magazine.

One of my favourite plants to grow ever is this Altshire, California, or to call it by its common name, the California Poppy.

But weirdly, it's not a plant that I've been growing for very long.

I first got to know a shelter during the first lockdown when, like a lot of gardeners, I was rifling through my sea tin wondering what to get started with for Easter sewing, and this old packet of seed caught my eye. It had come into my possession somehow, and the picture on the front looked completely irresistible. So, puzzled that I'd never have sewn it before, I set to work sewing myself a batch. Being an idiot, I completely failed to read any of the instructions on the panic, and sewed them in a module tray, two or three seeds to a module. Only now do I know that this is absolutely not the way to sew this particular plant, more of this later, but they all came up, and soon I had 12 healthy-looking seedlings to plant out in my garden. Having failed at the first hurdle of sewing them properly, I also later found that I was

failing at the second hurdle of transplanting them, because while my garden is on the heaviest

of rich, moisture-retentive London clays, this is a plant that thrives on poor, dry soils in hot, sunny

climates, like the head of California or northern Mexico. Yet somehow they grew

spectacularly well with fine, deeply divided pale green foliage. The best bit with this

plant is how the flowers form. In early summer the papery buds start to appear looking a lot like

tall green witches hats.

These hats then fall away to reveal a perfect flower, in the case of this variety in a rich

apricot hue. At first, tightly wrapped up, looking rather like a candle flame, but later opening

out to form a loose, open, goblet-shaped single flower that the bees seem to love.

And while a lot of plants are at their best in shelter conditions, these incredibly light

flowers look best with some wind blowing through them, animating the whole scene.

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