I have been cursed in my efforts to grow poppies. A friend's daughter has tons of them growing at her place and she let me dig up clumps of them and take them to mt own garden.

I had help in the following spring and the helpers thought the poppy seedling growing were weeds and pulled out every single one! That year I got poppy seeds and planted them all over the place and not one grew.

I'm trying again this year.