Poppy seeds, can I plant them now and where?

[CanIBeACurlyGirl]

I'm a very green novice in the garden. I do love cut flowers and I adore poppies.

A lovely client let me pick her poppies from the front garden which are currently flourishing in a small vase.

Can I pop the seeds and sow them in a big flower tub? Is there a better way to sow them, some are still buds v flowers.

I have a visage of scattering them all over and receiving poppies to cheer me up everywhere

Dragging up school biology here: Plants need to do the whole reproductive cycle to make seeds, grow -> flower -> get pollinated -> form seed. If it's still in flower mode it's not formed seeds and turned into a seed head so there are no seeds for you to sow I think.

Poppy seed heads look like bulbous things on the top of a stem with a little crown like thing on top.

You would need the seeds to fully develop and ripen - I'm not sure they will do that from a cut flower. Better to collect fresh seed from a plant. When they're ripe, the capsule containing the seeds splits open around the edge of the "lid".

Are these annual poppies - flowers not much bigger than the Remembrance day poppy - or are they peerennial poppies with huge flowers and bristly-hairy leaves and stems? Annual poppies don't like competition, they'll need clear soil, and they need to be surface sown - they need light to germinate.

@MereDintofPandiculation

You would need the seeds to fully develop and ripen - I'm not sure they will do that from a cut flower. Better to collect fresh seed from a plant. When they're ripe, the capsule containing the seeds splits open around the edge of the "lid".

Are these annual poppies - flowers not much bigger than the Remembrance day poppy - or are they peerennial poppies with huge flowers and bristly-hairy leaves and stems? Annual poppies don't like competition, they'll need clear soil, and they need to be surface sown - they need light to germinate.

Oft, big flowers with lots of pollen when touched. I did whisk these over the big flower pot.

Sadly, I have popped most buds and sprinkled minimal soil coverage in to the big pot as well, no hope really.

It's several weeks between the poppies being in flower and the seeds being ripe enough to sow.