Skip to main content
Problems with signing in?

We use your email to save the items in your cart, and occasionally send notifications about your cart contents. We will never sell your email address.

Belles main item image
Belles main full-size item image

Belles California Poppy

seeds
Choose an item size to add to your cart.
$2.75
Item: 5382-A
$5.25
Item: 5382-B
$12.00
Item: 5382-C
$25.00
Item: 5382-D
Eschscholzia californica
Open pollinated.

Annual. Bright colorful semi-double 2–3" silky orange flowers, occasionally yellow, rose-red or white. Not suited for bouquets since the petals quickly drop. The 8–9" tall plants are much favored for their heat and drought tolerance. This variety is commonly known as Mission Bells, an unfortunate name for a California Poppy, considering the painful history of Native peoples being forced into labor at the missions of California and then dying under the brutal conditions of colonial genocide. So we’ve started calling them simply ‘Belles.’ About 650 seeds/g.

Supplier Transparency:
② Family-owned companies or cooperatives, domestic and foreign
ships year-round
Quick Details
Hybrid Status
open pollinated
Bloom Color
multi-colored
Lifecycle
annual
Compare
Compare with other California Poppies
Variety Product Type Hybrid Status Bloom Color Lifecycle
Belles seeds open pollinated multi-colored annual
Mikado seeds open pollinated orange annual
Additional Information

California Poppies

  • About 650 seeds/g.
Annual. The state flower of California is excellent for borders, rock gardens, bedding. Likes full sun. Do not transplant. Direct seed in May after soil has begun warming. Make succession plantings for blooms all summer.

Flowers

All flower seeds are open-pollinated except where noted.

Days in parentheses after a variety indicate days to first bloom.

Saving Flower Seeds Is Easy!

Almost all the flowers we list are open- pollinated and easy to save seed from. Some types cross readily, but who cares! Save the seeds, plant them, and be surprised.

These flowers are especially easy to save seed from: bachelor’s buttons, calendula, cerinthe, cosmos, love-in-a- mist (nigella), nasturtium, poppy, strawflower, sunflower, sweet pea and tithonia.

Learn more about seed saving.

Germination Testing

For the latest results of our germination tests, please see the germination page.

Our Seeds are Non-GMO

Non GMO

All of our seeds are non-GMO, and free of neonicotinoids and fungicides. Fedco is one of the original companies to sign the Safe Seed Pledge.

Shipping

From early May through mid-December, items shipping from our garden seeds warehouse ship twice a week, usually Tuesday and Thursday. For quickest turnaround time order online by noon Monday or Wednesday.