Flowers are beautiful and indigenous to certain environments due to their specific climates. If you’ve seen blue poppies before in a field as you were driving by, then they might have been Himalayan blue poppies.
These special flowers originate in the Himalayas and are considered the national flower of Bhutan. Bhutan is a generally peaceful country in Asia and this flower represents their culture well. The blue in the Himalayan Blue Poppy flowers comes from a natural pigment called delphinidin and it creates a blue color due to its acidic conditions inside the plant.
For more fun facts about this blue flower, read on.
Can you Grow Them?
Blue poppies need to thrive in a nutrient-dense soil with slight shading. It won’t thrive in direct sunlight ad you can simply grow one by digging a hole of about 18 by 18 inches mixing various soils and fine bark mulch.
Cool as Blue
This flower thrives in the Himalayas because the climate is generally cool and breezy even during the summer. This flower needs the right conditions to grow and when it spurts, it blossoms into a waterfall of blue hues.
