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I had a lovely display of these flowers in my garden pots this year and I don't know what they are called and have been searching the web but really don't know.

Can anyone identify them for me please... stems about a foot long with feathery green leaves... many thanks
Lin

ooh, I think they're californian poppies â€" someone will be along shortly to correct me if I'm wrong!
(latin name Eschscholzia californica)

That's what they look like to me - self seeders but not one I remove very often.  Annuals, but like I say, there's always some each year & I've never sown any myself.  Great for a burst of sunny colour in the garden.

 :( I've never been able to establish them...  :'(

Me neither  :'(

I don't know where they came from, as I never planted them, but they've now established themselves in one corner of my plot.

wish they would establish themselves in my garden!

Buy a packet of seed now and scatter them where you would like them next year. Seeds my germinate now or wait until the spring. They seem to be very hardy in my garden, I haven't bought seed for a number of years but every year plants apear from self sown seed. They are easy to identify so if too many grow they can be removed.

Thanks for all your answers and I hope I haven't thrown away the last plant... they have always popped up in the same pots but I was weeding the other day and cleared the pots... but it sounds like as long as I don't throw away that earth they will turn up again.

And yes, they are gorgeous and if they grow again will throw the seed around in other areas as they just seem to flower and flower continuously.
Lin

yes that's a californian poppy all right. I was bursting to get some from my neigbour but lo and behold a couple popped up all by themselves!! So I shall leave them and hopefully they will give me more in spring ( a learned friend said they seed in autumn and are good self seeders. )
I find them to be very pretty elegant flowers, even better when they have their petals still closed.

Sow them now straight into the ground and you will have them forever. Don't mollycoddle them and just leave them to seed themselves. They do prefer a sandy soil. If you need some seed just give me your addy

I have some spare seeds EJ, & if any one else wants some i have a few to spare.