This summer I decided that I wanted to grow poppies after finding this site http://www.alchemy-works.com/eschscholzia_californica.html . The information presented and the plants/oils/seeds being sold blew my mind! I decided that poppy was a good plant to grow because of its significance to Native American Indian tribes in the Western United States. It has taken me a little too long to make this post, but in late July I dyed some muslin with poppy dye. Because it was difficult for me to amass a large amount of poppy petals without them going bad (even kept in the refrigerator) it wasn't a very strong dye, nor was it large. I only dyed some very small bits of muslin. At any rate, the results were interesting not for their color-an almost imperceptible light brown- but because the poppy petals stuck to the fabric and adhered to it while drying. I found this to be very beautiful, even after the petals faded from their orangey red to brown.
